New York bombing: Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami 'arrested after shooting police officer', local media reports

Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, New York bombing

The Telegraph, Mon, Sep 19, 2016

by Ruth Sherlock, in washington Louise Burke Emma Gatten Harriet Alexander

Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, 'under arrest'
Five suspicious devices found near train station in New Jersey
Comes a day after bombing that rocked popular Chelsea district
29 people injured, but all now released from hospital
Everything we know so far about the New York explosion
Police named 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami as a suspect in an explosion in Manhattan over the weekend that left 29 wounded, as New York governor Andrew Cuomo said a there may be a 'foreign connection' to the attack.

Earlier on Monday, The FBI has issued a wanted poster seeking information and warning that Rahami should be considered "armed and dangerous". He was arrested around 11am local time, according to media reports.

Authorities are exploring links between the New York blast and a pipe bomb in New Jersey on Saturday morning, as well as five suspicious devices found near a train station on Sunday night, as suspicion grows that a terror cell may be behind the attacks. . . . .


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