Cuomo says he spoke to President Barack Obama on Monday.
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“We’re going to have more security personnel than ever assembled over this next week during the UN General Assembly” New York governor Andrew Cuomo said on CNN. It said, “WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-yr-old male”. The suspect was wounded, as were two officers, but not seriously.
He was reportedly found sleeping in the doorway of a bar, according to CNN. Rahami is a USA citizen born in Afghanistan. They officially linked the bombing at the shore and in the city on Monday morning.
New Jersey Transit trains resumed service along the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Line, but there are delays.
FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser says agents stopped “a vehicle of interest in the investigation” of the Manhattan explosion Sunday night. It is unclear how the Federal Bureau of Investigation identified the suspects’ vehicle, but they were stopped while traveling over the Verrazano Bridge, and it’s believed that they were heading toward the airport.
Naturally, people wondered if these three events could be connected to a single terrorist source. Another pipe bomb went off yesterday in a trash can in Seaside Park, New Jersey. The devices had been left in a trashcan near the course. No one was injured.
Following the explosion in New Jersey, a bomb went off in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday evening. Two other unexploded bombs were found nearby.
The possible explosive devices were found in a backpack outside the NJ Transit train station in Elizabeth around 12:30 a.m. on Monday; one exploded while a bomb squad robot was attempting to disarm it, according to authorities.
When they saw wires and a pipe, they immediately dropped the bag and called Elizabeth police to inform them of the suspicious nature of the backpack.
Bollwage said that he wasn’t willing to say that Elizabeth had become a target and that it was possible that someone anxious about the authorities was trying to get rid of the package.
The ordinance applied specifically to that particular restaurant, not all eateries in the city, he said. A man alerted authorities just before 9 p.m. Sunday after he found a suspicious device he thought was a bomb.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said, “We have every reason to believe this [the New York bombing] was an act of terror”, during a news conference Monday afternoon. Officials said it didn’t appear that those two incidents were related.
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A day earlier, two men walking down a New York City street made off with what looked like an abandoned wheeled backpack.
