Five devices found near New Jersey train station: mayor

And on Sunday night, a backpack with multiple bombs inside was found in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

The discovery came after three attacks at the weekend – bombs in NY and New Jersey, and stabbings in Minnesota.

Police identified a main suspect in these bombings, Ahmed Khan Rahami, on Monday morning.

A person of interest in the weekend bombings in a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan.

As a bomb squad robot dealt with the device, it “cut a wire and it exploded”, Bollwage told CNN.

In the block-by-block search after the Saturday’s explosion, two former state troopers found a possible secondary device a few blocks away on 27th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, said James O’Neill, the city’s police commissioner.

Authorities are looking for the two men on the video in connection with Saturday night’s events in Chelsea.

Officials said that the suspicious device discovered Sunday night in New Jersey appeared appeared similar to a device that exploded earlier Saturday morning in Seaside Park.

One eyewitness described the blast as “thunderous”, but there have been no injuries.

Authorities converged on the apartment just before 6 a.m.

Two homeless men found the backpack in a garbage can in front of a parking lot on the 200 block of North Broad St., Bollwage said.

As reports of Rahami being taken in custody were being released, US President Barack Obama said he saw no connection between the explosions and a separate weekend incident where a man stabbed nine people at a mall in central Minnesota before being shot dead.

Officials do not believe the men are related to the terror plot, but would like to speak to them as witnesses, according to New York Post.

Amtrak said that its Northeast Regional and Acela Express trains, which had been suspended after the explosion, would operate Monday on modified schedules. A bomb squad robot confirmed that it was an explosive device.

NJ Transit bus and PATH are cross honoring rail tickets and passes.

Multiple senior law enforcement officials and an NYPD spokesperson early Monday identified Ahmad Rahami of Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the suspect, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said he should be considered armed and risky. I know there are other devices.

As many as five potential explosive devices tumbled out of the backpack when it was emptied, Bollwage said.

The men, who were scavengers, left the package under the tracks and ran to a police station to report what they had found, says CBS New York.

The New Jersey Transit line was part suspended Monday after the incident.

With investigation underway, train service has been suspended between Newark’s Liberty Airport and Elizabeth, while New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains from NY are being held at the Penn Station.