A man is being held after an attempted terror attack at New York City’s main bus terminal.<\/p>\n
“Terrorists won’t win,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said after a blast at the Port Authority terminal in Manhattan during the morning rush hour on Monday.<\/p>\n
The suspect, Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant, was injured by a “low-tech explosive device” strapped to his body, officials say.<\/p>\n
Three other people suffered minor wounds when it blew up in an underpass.<\/p>\n
A photo circulating on social media shows a man, said to be Akayed Ullah, lying on the ground with his clothes ripped and lacerations on his upper body.<\/p>\n
Mayor De Blasio said he was believed to have acted alone.<\/p>\n
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said: “This is New York. The reality is that we are a target by many who would like to make a statement against democracy, against freedom.<\/p>\n
“We have the Statue of Liberty in our harbour and that makes us an international target.”<\/p>\n
The explosion occurred at about 07:30 (12:30 GMT). Andre Rodriguez, 62, told the New York Times: “I was going through the turnstile. It sounded like an explosion, and everybody started running.”<\/p>\n
Another eyewitness, Alicja Wlodkowski, told Reuters news agency that she had seen a group of about 60 people running. “A woman fell. And nobody even went to stop and help her because the panic was so scary,” she said.<\/p>\n
Nearby subway stations were evacuated, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal temporarily shut.<\/p>\n
It is the biggest and busiest bus terminal in the world, serving more than 65 million people a year.<\/p>\n
The suspect’s home in the New York City borough of Brooklyn is being searched, the New York Times reports.<\/p>\n
He may have been recently working at an electrical company, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n
Mr Ullah emigrated to the US on a family visa in 2011. The Bangladeshi government said he had no criminal record in the country, which he last visited in September.<\/p>\n
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders claimed that if Mr Trump’s proposed immigration crackdown had already been in place, “the attacker would have never been allowed to come into the country”.<\/p>\n
“This attack underscores the need for Congress to work with the president on immigration reforms that enhance our national security and public safety,” she added during a daily news briefing on Monday.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"