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An explosion in New York City left 29 people injured and police were investigating a second device at a nearby site. FBI agents are questioning five suspects over the explosion that injured 29 people in a crowded Manhattan neighbourhood.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called the blast an "intentional act," but said there was no terrorist connection. The news came as investigators were examining a suspicious device found in a rubbish bin near a New Jersey railway station, with the US on high alert.
"Tonight, New York City experienced a very bad incident," he said at a news conference near the scene in Chelsea. "We have no credible and specific threat at this moment. " The FBI pulled over a car that spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser described as "a vehicle of interest in the investigation" on a road in Brooklyn at 8:45pm local time on Sunday.
He said the blast was "an intentional act" but tried to calm any fears among nervous New Yorkers, saying there was no evidence of a link to terrorism, and no connection with a pipe bomb explosion earlier on Saturday at a New Jersey charity run. Law enforcement sources said five people in the car were being questioned at an FBI building in lower Manhattan.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press the second device that officers were investigating four blocks from the scene appeared to be a pressure cooker attached to wiring and a mobile phone. No-one has been charged with any crime and the investigation is continuing.
The source said the device was found inside a plastic bag on West 27th Street. The explosion was in the busy Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan on Saturday evening, and an unexploded pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away.
The official said the explosion appears to have come from a construction toolbox in front of a building. New York officials said the incident was not due to a gas leak, as some initial reports had suggested Late on Sunday evening in New Jersey two men found a package with wires and a pipe coming out of it, Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage said.
He said the Union County bomb squad's robotic device indicated the package could be a live bomb, and the FBI and state police will decide how to remove the device.