Twenty-nine people were injured Saturday after a powerful explosion ripped through the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan in New York City.
Authorities said an unexploded pressure-cooker device was found just a few blocks away and a pipe bomb exploded in Seaside Park, New Jersey on Saturday night.
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On Monday, the New York City Police Department released a photo of 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami who was wanted for questioning in the Saturday night explosion in Manhattan. He was taken into custody later Monday morning after a shootout with police in New Jersey.
Here is what we do and don’t know about the situations unfolding in N.Y. and N.J.
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29 people injured in explosion in New York City
Where did the explosions occur?
New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill said the explosion Saturday night occurred on the street outside of 131 W. 23rd St.
Authorities said a second device, an unexploded pressure-cooker, was found four blocks away on West 27th Street shortly after the explosion.
An image of the device that was shared on social media showed a silver piece of cookware with wires and a cellphone attached.
Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded about an hour from the Elizabeth train station in Seaside Park, New Jersey, near the site of a military charity 5K run. No one was injured in the blast.
On Sunday, five explosive devices were discovered at an Elizabeth train station and one device exploded Monday while a bomb disposal unit attempted to disarm it. No one was hurt.
Who is the suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami?
Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, was taken into custody by police in New Jersey on Monday just before noon.
Local news footage showed a wounded man believed to be 28-year-old Rahami being loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher in New Jersey. He appeared to be conscious and looking around.
A law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that two officers were shot in the gun battle.
“We need the facts to be able to piece all this together. … I think we’re going to know a lot more in the course of the day. Things are moving very quickly,” NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN.
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FBI agents in Brooklyn stopped “a vehicle of interest in the investigation” of the Manhattan explosion on Sunday night, according to FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser
An anonymous government official and a law enforcement official who were briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press that five people in the car were being questioned at an FBI building in lower Manhattan.
No one had been charged, and the investigation is ongoing.
Are the explosions connected to international terrorism?
President Barack Obama was in New York for a previously schedules meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, and said it was “extremely fortunate” nobody was killed in the bombings.
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He called on Americans not to give into the “fear” inspired by terrorists and violent extremists.
“They are trying to hurt innocent people, but they also want to inspire fear in all of us and distrupt the way we live to undermine our values,” Obama said. “We all have a role to play as citizens to make sure we don’t succumb to that fear. And there’s no better example of that than the people of New York and New Jersey. …Folks around here, they don’t get scared.”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo now says it appears the Manhattan bombing could be connected to foreign terrorism.
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“Today’s information suggests it may be foreign related, but we’ll see where it goes,” Cuomo said.
On Sunday, Cuomo had effectively ruled out a link to international terrorism, saying there was no evidence to suggest that.
How serious are the injuries in New York?
Officials said that many of the injuries were caused by shrapnel from the explosion. One person was seriously hurt, officials said. By Sunday morning, all of those who had been admitted to local hospitals had been released.
Are the New York and New Jersey explosions connected?
Officials had initially said they did not believe there was a link between the blasts in Seaside Park, N.J., and New York, but later Sunday law enforcement officials said investigators were focusing more on the possibility the two were connected.
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Authorities say all of the bombs in Chelsea and Seaside Park shared some similarities in design. The Seaside explosive device involved pipe bombs tied together, and sources say it was timed to detonate when the race began.
What we don’t know
- A motive for the explosions
- Why the site of the explosion was selected
- How many people were involved in the explosions
*With files from the Associated Press
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