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[snoop1130]

New York police responding to reports of explosion: police tweet

Reuters Staff

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Police Department was responding to reports of an explosion of unknown origin on Monday morning in midtown Manhattan at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, according to the police department’s official Twitter feed.

 

Some subway train lines there were being evacuated.

 

The New York fire department said it was responding to an incident at the Port Authority bus terminal in midtown Manhattan.

 

Reporting By Nick Zieminski in New YorkEditing by Chizu Nomiyama

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-11

[Morch]

 

Official: Device explodes on NYC subway platform

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[snoop1130]

One person in custody, several injured, in New York explosion

 

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An explosion rocked New York's Port Authority, one of the city's busiest commuter hubs in midtown Manhattan, during Monday morning's rush hour, injuring several people.

 

Police confirmed one person is in custody but were not yet identifying the device used. Local news channel WABC cited police sources as saying a possible pipe bomb detonated in a passageway below ground at Port Authority.

 

A police officer near the scene said: “There was an explosion under Port Authority somewhere in the subway. That’s all we’ve got for now.”

 

Media reported several people were injured, and WPIX television reported, citing sources, that a man with a “possible second device” has been detained in the subway tunnel.

 

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and President Donald Trump have been briefed on the incident, according to local media and the White House.

 

“There was a stampede up the stairs to get out,” said Diego Fernandez, one of the commuters at Port Authority. “Everybody was scared and running and shouting.”

 

(Reporting By Nick Zieminski and Simon Webb in New York; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-11

[observer90210]

Must be real exciting for CNN's "Breaking News" and the rest of the media circus !

 

I just feel sorry for the New Yorkers stranded in the whole mess, who woke up this morning and were trudging to commute and to get to work. Hope things get rapidly cleared up to enable all those folks to get around and reach home back at time tonight.

Edited December 11, 2017 by observer90210

[champers]

The authorities have quickly released the perp's name and background and named the 4 NYC cops who arrested him. They must be delighted.

All to feed the media frenzy.

[Jsinbkk]

In Bangladesh on Trumps travel ban yet?

[katana]

Akayed Ullah, Bangladesh immigrant.

CCTV footage of bomb going off.

 

[alex8912]

Utter scum. Too bad he's alive. Those people must have been scared in that incredibly busy bus station. Glad no one innocent died. 

[Somtamnication]

Thank God only an amateur. So it begins......

[webfact]

'Amateur' bomber targets New York commuters; suspect held

By Nick Zieminski and Daniel Trotta

 

Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi man who attempted to detonate a homemade bomb strapped to his body at a New York commuter hub during morning rush hour is seen in this handout photo received December 11, 2017. New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission/Handout via REUTERS

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Bangladeshi man with a homemade bomb strapped to his body set off an explosion at a New York commuter hub during rush hour on Monday morning, wounding himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called an attempted terrorist attack.

 

The suspect in the incident in the Times Square subway station near the Port Authority Bus Terminal was Akayed Ullah, 27, the New York Police Department commissioner said.

 

Ullah had burns and lacerations. Three other people, including a police officer, sustained minor injuries.

 

The weapon was a pipe bomb that was attached to the suspect, police said. New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo, speaking at a news conference near the explosion site, described the device as "amateur-level."

 

Cuomo told CNN the explosive in the pipe ignited, but the pipe itself did not explode. "So he wound up hurting himself, several others in the vicinity." He said the attacker obtained information on how to make a bomb from the internet.

 

Fox News reported that the attacker made the device at his job at an electrical company and there were no known co-conspirators.

 

De Blasio told the news conference the incident, which happened at the start of the morning rush around 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT), was "an attempted terrorist attack."

 

The White House said the attack underscored the need for U.S. immigration reforms.

 

"We must protect out borders. We must ensure that individuals entering our country are not coming to do harm to our people. And we must move to a merit-based system of immigration," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters at a regular news briefing.

 

Several U.S. officials familiar with the investigation told Reuters that at this point there was no information indicating Ullah was previously known to any American spy or law enforcement agency for any connection to militants or terrorism. This did not, however, categorically rule out some such connection could be found, they said.

 

An authoritative U.S. government source confirmed that Ullah arrived in the United States seven years ago on a visa authorizing his entry due to the U.S. presence of family members.

 

New York City was a target, said John Miller, deputy police commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism. He cited the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which killed more than 2,750 people in New York and nearly 3,000 people in all; and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people.

 

Ullah is from the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong and is a U.S. resident, said the country's police chief. He had no criminal record there and last visited Bangladesh on Sept. 8, the chief said.

 

Ullah had a black cab/limousine driver's licence from 2012 to 2015, the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission said.

 

A pro-Islamic State media group, Maqdisi Media, portrayed the attempted terror attack as a response to U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition on Wednesday of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. SITE tracks and analyzes online activity by extremist groups.

 

However, CNN, citing a law enforcement source, reported that Ullah told investigators recent Israeli actions in Gaza were the reason he carried out the attack.

 

The incident occurred less than two months after an Uzbek immigrant killed eight people by speeding down a New York City bike path in a rental truck, in an attack for which Islamic State claimed responsibility.

 

In September 2016, a man injured 31 people when he set off a homemade bomb in New York's Chelsea neighbourhood.

 

Monday's incident was captured on security video, police said. Video posted on NYPost.com showed smoke and a man lying in a long tunnel that connects sections of the sprawling Times Square subway station. A photograph showed a man lying facedown, with tattered clothes and burns on his torso.

 

'EVERYBODY WAS SCARED'

 

"There was a stampede up the stairs to get out," said one commuter, Diego Fernandez. "Everybody was scared and running and shouting.”

 

The bus terminal was temporarily closed and a large swath of midtown Manhattan was closed to traffic. Subway travel was disrupted but later returned to normal.

 

In December, New York experiences a surge of visitors who come to see elaborate store window displays, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and Broadway shows.

 

Alicja Wlodkowski, a Pennsylvania resident in New York for the day, was sitting in a restaurant in the bus terminal.

 

“Suddenly, I saw a group of people, like six people, running like nuts. A woman fell. No one even went to stop and help her because the panic was so scary."

 

More than 200,000 people use the Times Square station, the city's busiest, each weekday, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Ten train lines stop at the station.

 

The bus terminal is the busiest in the United States, according to the Port Authority. On a typical weekday, about 220,000 passengers arrive or depart on more than 7,000 buses.

 

The bus terminal is adjacent to and above the subway station's western section. A long, narrow underground tunnel connects that part of the station to its eastern section, and is used by thousands of commuters during rush hour.

 

Buskers and other entertainers at entrances to the tunnel often draw crowds.

 

The incident rippled through American financial markets, briefly weakening stock markets as they were starting trading for the week and giving a modest lift to safe-haven assets such as U.S. Treasuries.

 

Technology and energy stocks gained in afternoon trading, helping Wall Street shake off uncertainties following the explosion.

 

(Reporting By Nick Zieminski, Dan Trotta and Simon Webb in New York; additional reporting by Bernie Woodall, Roberta Rampton, Lisa Lambert, Gina Cherelus, Mark Hosenball, Serajul Quadi, Joseph Ax, Makini Brice and Fred Katayama; editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Jonathan Oatis)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-12

[Scott]

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[Coconutman]

3 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Thank God only an amateur. So it begins......

It began a long time ago

[geriatrickid]

9 hours ago, champers said:

The authorities have quickly released the perp's name and background and named the 4 NYC cops who arrested him. They must be delighted.

All to feed the media frenzy.

Jeez. No, it is called answering public concerns and averting the potential for rumors and false  claims of conspiracies. This is the strategy called for in wake of multiple terror attacks where vested interests have claimed "false flag" events. In case you missed it, we still have the arab media making claims that Israeli suicide agents flew the planes on 9-11, and that they were in cahoots with  the CIA and MI6.

The public had a right to know about this Bangladeshi terrorist. The release of the information in  the  calm and rational manner  assured and calmed a spooked city.

Edited December 12, 2017 by geriatrickid

[FreddieRoyle]

5 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

Jeez. No, it is called answering public concerns and averting the potential for rumors and false  claims of conspiracies. This is the strategy called for in wake of multiple terror attacks where vested interests have claimed "false flag" events. In case you missed it, we still have the arab media making claims that Israeli suicide agents flew the planes on 9-11, and that they were in cahoots with  the CIA and MI6.

The public had a right to know about this Bangladeshi terrorist. The release of the information in  the  calm and rational manner  assured and calmed a spooked city.

Yes the honest approach by US authorities is a wonderful strategy, far far superior to the European approach to make every effort to muddy the waters and obfuscate which has the effect of angering those that know the score and giving false hope to liberals who are then made a fool of when the accurate info finally emerges. Cologne Silvester night "passed peacefully" as one example of an outright lie designed to mollify the gullible, but which ultimately backfired and politically awoke hundreds of thousands of Germans and even caused Merkel to have problems at the ballot box. Well done American authorites.

 

 Some good will come of this cowardly attack, Trump has already promised to end this chain migration. Safety for Americans must be prioritized over virtue signalling on the world stage. Trump proving he is better than his predecessor in respect of safety and security.

[ballpoint]

11 hours ago, alex8912 said:

Utter scum. Too bad he's alive. Those people must have been scared in that incredibly busy bus station. Glad no one innocent died. 

It's actually a good thing he's still alive.  If the blast was strong enough to kill him it would have likely taken out others as well.

[Skeptic7]

Who da thunk it? Another hadji...surprise surprise!