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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said no arrests have been made in connection with the bombing over the weekend in New York City after police pulled over a car on a city bridge, an agency spokesman said.
“We conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in New York City but no arrests were made and no one has been charged with any crime,” FBI spokesman Kelly Langmesser said by telephone, adding thatinvestigation was continuing.
Local media, however,cited unnamed law enforcement sources as saying that federal authorities detained five people with possible links to theNewYorkbombing.
The reports said the vehicle was stopped around 9.30pm heading east on the Belt Parkway from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects theNewYorkcity boroughs Brooklyn and Staten Island.
TheNewYorkDaily News reported that weapons were found in the car.The newspaper also said that one person of interest had been identified via surveillance footage, but it was not clear if he was one of the five taken into custody.
A spokesman for theNewYorkPolice Department declined to confirm the reports, only saying that the probe was ongoing.
Authorities have been on high alert since Saturday’s blast. Twenty-nine people were wounded by an explosive device that rocked the Chelsea neighbourhood, sending a deafening roar and powerful shockwave through several blocks of the popular Manhattan shopping district.An undetonated pressure cooker bomb was alsofound four blocks away.
InNewJersey, a pipe bomb exploded in a trash can on the sidelines of a Marine Corps run, causing no injuries but forcing the cancellation of the race. And at a Minnesota shopping mall, nine people were injured in a stabbing rampage.
While officials described all three as deliberate, criminal acts and were investigating them as potential "acts of terrorism",they stopped short of characterising the motivation behind any of them until more evidence is uncovered.
On Sunday (Monday Singapore time)inNewJersey, rail service was suspended between Newark airport and the city of Elizabeth, amid reports that a suspicious package had been found there.
Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage told journalists that two men walking near the train station had noticed a package in a waste basket and took it.After noticing “wires and a pipe,” they dropped the package and alerted police.
A drone examination found that “it could be suspicious and it could be a live bomb,” andFBIofficials were at the site.
(THE STRAITS TIMES)
