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FBI agents are questioning five suspects over the explosion that injured 29 people in a crowded Manhattan neighbourhood. Authorities have arrested and identified the man they believe set off bombs in New York City and New Jersey on Sunday.
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. Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested on Monday morning following a shootout with police that left two officers wounded but not critically injured.
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. "We have every reason to believe this was an act of terror," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters shortly after Mr Rahami's arrest.
Law enforcement sources said five people in the car were being questioned at an FBI building in lower Manhattan. Five people were also momentarily detained on Sunday night in a vehicle associated with Mr Rahami. Law enforcement officials said the people were questioned and released after at least one of the suspect’s relatives were driving toward John F Kennedy Airport.
No-one has been charged with any crime and the investigation is continuing.
The explosion was in the busy Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan on Saturday evening, and an unexploded pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away.
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.