Sept. 19, 2016: Elizabeth train station where device was found.
(Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage) The FBI launched a raid at a building in
Elizabeth, New Jersey Monday morning, hours after investigators uncovered five
suspicious devices -- one of which exploded -- near a train station in that
city.
Undercover agents and members of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force were
taking part in the raid in an apartment above a restaurant, roughly one mile
from the train station. Bomb dogs went from car to car and trash can to
trash can along a residential street. It was unclear whether they found
any possible suspects.
The suspicious devices turned up in a backpack near the train station
Sunday night. One exploded when a bomb squad robot tried to disarm it. The discovery
came a day after an explosion in Manhattan injured 29 people and an unexploded
pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away, although investigators would
not say whether the incidents were believed to be linked.
Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage said two men called police and reported
seeing wires and a pipe coming out of the package after finding it in a trash
can around 8:30 p.m.
Media at the scene reported hearing a loud explosion and smelling gunpowder
at around 12:40 a.m. Monday after Bollwage said earlier that the Union County
bomb squad’s robotic device indicated that the package could’ve been a live
bomb. There was no report of injuries following the explosion.
Bollwage said the FBI and state police would decide how to remove the devices.
New Jersey Transit service was suspended early Monday between Newark Liberty
Airport and Elizabeth, and New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains were being held at
New York Penn Station, officials said. Riders reported being stuck on Amtrak
and NJ Transit trains for hours Sunday night, while some trains moved in
reverse to let passengers off at other stations.
Also on Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded about an hour from the Elizabeth
train station in Seaside Park, New Jersey, forcing the cancellation of a
military charity 5K run. Officials said it didn't appear that those two
incidents were connected, though they weren't ruling anything out.
Fox News' Leland Vittert, Meghan Welsh and The
Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/19/suspicious-package-reportedly-found-near-new-jersey-train-station.html
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