One was hit by shrapnel and another had high blood pressure.
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The address of a home being searched by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is linked to a person with a similar name.
One bombing. Two very different perspectives and behind the scenes questions of why?
Police described the explosion on Saturday in NY and a stabbing attack in Minnesota as acts of terrorism.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the investigation.
She wouldn’t provide further details, but a government official and a law enforcement official who were briefed on the investigation said five people in the vehicle were being questioned at an FBI building in lower Manhattan.
On Sunday around 9:30 p.m., two men found the backpack in the garbage can and alerted police when they saw wires and a pipe, he said.
The Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, said: “This should steel our resolve to protect our country and defeat ISIS and other terrorist groups”. -Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
“We will be deploying close to an additional 1,000 New York State Police and National Guard people to police the bus terminals, airports and subway stations”, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.
Investigators have not determined if those two men are connected to the man with the duffel bag on both streets, the sources said.
“We know it was a very serious incident, but we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this”, de Blasio told reporters Sunday.
Wanted: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28 year old male, is being sought in connection with the Chelsea bombing.
The arrest just hours after police issued a bulletin and photo of Rahami, a naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan who lived with Muslim family in an apartment in Elizabeth, New Jersey, over a fried-chicken restaurant owned by his father.
“The more we learn with each passing hour is it looks more like terrorism”, de Blasio said in an interview on NY1 News. He is a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan.
An explosion on a residential street in the Chelsea neighborhood injured 29 people.
“In the course of rendering one of the devices safe, it detonated”, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said, adding that nobody was injured.
A device exploded early Monday after police recovered five possible homemade pipe bombs in a backpack taken from the trash in the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey. No one was injured.
President Obama is scheduled to speak at the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan as the General Debate kicks off on Tuesday.
An explosion that occurred on Saturday in Manhattan, New York, US, has injured almost 29 people, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has said.
Late Sunday, more suspicious devices were found near a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
An Afghan immigrant wanted in the bombings that rocked a New York City neighborhood and a New Jersey shore town was captured Monday after being wounded in a gun battle with police that erupted when he was discovered sleeping in a bar doorway, authorities said. On Sunday, Cuomo had effectively ruled out a link to global terrorism, saying there was no evidence to suggest that.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged a massive showing of security Monday as world leaders gather in Manhattan, two days after a bombing in the borough injured 29 people. They’ve all since been released from hospitals.
Earlier on Monday an Afghanistan-born American suspected of detonating the bomb in Chelsea and of planting other devices in NY and New Jersey was arrested following a gun battle with police. The NYPD tweeted Monday morning that authorities were seeking Ahmad Khan Rahami. He is considered armed and unsafe. In the immediate aftermath of that bombing, Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo were careful to say there was no evidence of a link to worldwide terrorism. An unexploded pressure-cooker bomb was found blocks away.
Authorities said the blasts were looking increasingly like an act of terrorism with a foreign connection.
The pipe bomb exploded Saturday in Seaside Park, New Jersey, before a charity 5K race to benefit Marines and sailors.
Although the incidents shared similarities, including the use of cellphones to detonate the explosives, law enforcement officials told CNN Sunday they could not confirm, at that time, that the explosions were linked.
On Sunday night, FBI agents in Brooklyn stopped “a vehicle of interest” in the investigation of the Manhattan explosion, according to FBI spokesperson Kelly Langmesser. She said no one has been charged.
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In New York, law enforcement officials and the mayor said that without knowing who’s responsible or what the motive was, it’s too soon to call the Saturday bombing a terror attack. Cell phones were discovered at the site of both bombings.
