CNN reports:
An explosion Monday morning at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan is, in the words of Police Commissioner James O’Neill, a “terror-related incident.”
The explosion happened on a walkway below ground near 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue, injuring 3 people.
Police identified the suspect as Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old man who lives in Brooklyn and is of Bangladeshi descent. Ullah is in custody and is now at Bellevue Hospital.
The suspect wore an “improvised low-tech explosive device attached to his body. He intentionally detonated that device,” O’Neill said.
Ullah told police he made the device at his workplace, according to a senior New York law enforcement official and a city official being briefed on the investigation.
The device he used was a pipe bomb affixed to his person with a combination of Velcro and zip ties, John Miller, Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, said.
Asked if the suspect claimed connection to ISIS, O’Neill told reporters that “he did make statements” but refrained at present from disclosing what he said, CNN reported.
Police are asking anyone who may have any information about this individual or the incident to call Terror Hotline at 888-NYC-SAFE.
VIDEO:
BREAKING VIDEO: Moment of explosion at 42nd St and 8th Avenue in Manhattan pic.twitter.com/JwygdnnwNb
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The Yishmaelim always move to areas where the jews live in many cities like a thorn in our side. In Belgium the chassidim live a block away from ISIS fighters who come and go with belgian passports same in many other cities its Hashems plan to keep us on our toes until we fulfill our mission they will always be trouble for us right next door…
my dear friends we got to start gteaching the world the sheva mitsvos bnei noach thats the only way its about time!
BS”D Once again NYC the sanctuary city
They should have let him lay there and die!
of Moshiach. Last year there were 2 terrible bombs detonated in lower Manhattan, near a restaurant, where there were several casualties. Less than half a year later there were car rammings into crowded pedestrian malls in Time Square with several casualties. Moshiach is desperately needed there’s no other solution!
Ad mosai?
Ad mosai?
Ad mosai?
Moshiach NOW
Very scary! You gotta watch your back at the menorah lightings. Moschaich now!
As I was just in that exact area a few hours prior to the explosion. Hodu L’Hashem ki tov, ki l’olam chasdo! Thank you Hashem for saving me.