An explosion rocked New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal, one of the city’s busiest commuter terminal, on Monday morning and police said one suspect was injured and in custody, with three other injuries reported. Police were not yet identifying the device used. Local television channel WABC cited police sources as saying a possible improvised explosion device was detonated in a passageway below ground.
The fire department tweeted there were four injuries, all non-life threatening. One of the injured was a Port Authority police officer. The bus terminal was temporarily closed, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a Twitter statement.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and President Donald Trump have been briefed on the incident. New York governor Andrew Cuomo was on the scene. Reports have that the suspect was in his 20s and was from Bangladesh, and that he has been in the United States for seven years and has an address in New York’s Brooklyn.
First reports of the incident began soon after 7 a.m. (1200 GMT), at the start of the city’s rush hour. New York in December sees a surge of visitors who come to see elaborate store displays, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and Broadway shows.
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.
