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FBI Hunt for Afghan-born US Man Over New York, New Jersey Bombings

Authorities in New York are searching for a 28-year-old man in connection with a bomb that exploded Saturday night in Manhattan, one of four incidents involving explosives in the region during the last 48 hours, Voice of America reports.

The FBI says Ahmad Khan Rahami is wanted for questioning in the blast that injured 29 people in the neighborhood of Chelsea around 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

Police say Rahami is also being sought for questioning in another bombing hours before the Manhattan explosion, about 135 kilometers south of New York City. Explosives detonated in a trash bin in Seaside Park just before a 5-kilometer foot race began. No one was hurt in that blast.

The FBI and police in New York have also been searching for suspects and possible links between the Saturday blast and another explosive device found a few blocks away that did not detonate. The second device, recovered a short time after the first went off, involved a pressure cooker with a cell phone attached to it. Police were able to safely remove it from the area and said Sunday they blew it up in a controlled explosion.

Police say Rahami, a U.S. citizen of Afghan descent, was last known to live in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Local media reports say his family ran a restaurant there on the first floor of their home.

Yet more devices were found late Sunday in a backpack in a trash can at a train station in Elizabeth, located just outside New York. Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage said one of the devices exploded as police tried to disarm it with a robot. The incident briefly disrupted train service throughout the region, along one of the country’s busiest rail corridors.

On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reiterated that the Chelsea bombing was an “act for terrorism,” and said there may be a “foreign link,” despite his claim on Sunday that were was no connection to “international terrorism.”

Authorities stopped a “vehicle of interest” on a highway in the Brooklyn section of New York late Sunday, and the FBI said it questioned five people inside, but that no one had been charged with any crime.

All 29 people wounded in the Chelsea blast have been released from the hospital.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump tweeted about the attacks Monday.

 

 

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