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An explosion rocked New York's Port Authority, one of the city's busiest commuter hubs, on Monday morning and police said one suspect was injured and in custody in the rush-hour incident.
An explosion rocked New York's Port Authority, one of the city's busiest commuter hubs, on Monday morning and police said one suspect was injured and in custody in the rush-hour incident.
Police confirmed one person was 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 and WPIX cited sources as saying a man with a “possible second device” has been detained in the subway tunnel.
BREAKING: The New York City police commissioner calls the subway pipe-bombing a "terror-related incident."
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2017
The bus terminal was temporarily closed, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a Twitter statement.
Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, speaking on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ said preliminary information suggests the man in his 20s, possibly from Bangladesh, who was ‘setting off the device in the name of ISIS, so definitely a terrorist attack’.
“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.”
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.
News of the incident jarred financial markets as trading was getting underway for the week. Standard & Poor's 500 index emini futures pared gains, the dollar weakened against the yen and U.S. Treasury securities prices gained on a modest flight-to-safety bid.
The incident occurred less than two months after an Uzbek immigrant killed eight people by speeding a rental truck down a New York City bike path, in an attack for which Islamic State claimed responsibility.
In September 2016, a man injured more than two dozen people when he set off a homemade bomb in New York's Chelsea district.
With inputs from Reuters
The New York Police Department said in an update that one male suspect in custody and that they were no injuries other than suspect at this time.
Update regarding explosion at 42nd St and 8th Ave, in subway: One male suspect is in custody. No injuries other than suspect at this time. Avoid the area. Subways bypassing #PortAuthority and Times Square Stations. Info is preliminary. pic.twitter.com/bEAdjq8mYc
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) December 11, 2017
Sarah Sanders said Donald Trump has been briefed about the explosion in New York City
.@POTUS has been briefed on the explosion in New York City
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 11, 2017
One person has been arrested, said AFP citing media reports.
#BREAKING One person arrested in Manhattan blast: media reports
— AFP news agency (@AFP) December 11, 2017
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