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Bomb squad personnel stand around the scene of an explosion near the train station on Monday. Pic/AP
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Elizabeth: A suspicious device found in a trashcan near a train station exploded early on Monday as a bomb squad was attempting to disarm it with a robot, officials said.
Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage said the FBI was working to disarm one of five devices found in the same bag in a trashcan by two men at around 8.30 pm on Sunday near the Elizabeth train station. The men had reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of the package, Bollwage said.
There was no immediate report of injuries or damage. The mayor warned that other explosions were expected.
Additionally, armed with a search warrant, FBI agents and police converged on an apartment above a fried chicken restaurant near the train station before 6 am on Monday. It was later found that the apartment is linked to a man wanted for questioning in Saturday night’s Chelsea bombing, which injured 29.
Meanwhile, New Jersey Transit service trains resumed services at 5.30 am on Monday, but they faced residual delays because service was suspended after the devices were found.
The discovery of the suspicious package came a day after the Manhattan explosion, and an unexploded pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away in New York City. Also Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded about an hour from the Elizabeth train station in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
Bollwage said that he wasn’t willing to say that Elizabeth had become a target and that it was possible that someone worried about the authorities was trying to get rid of the package.
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