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The Daily Mail reports that five people have been taken into custody in connection with the Chelsea bombing after the FBI discovered a bomb cache in New Jersey and stopped a car near New York City’s Verranzano Bridge on Sunday night.
The FBI is believed to have called the NYPD for backup at around 8.45pm after making the decision to halt a car on the busy Belt Parkway and found the occupants were heavily armed.
No one has been charged with any crime and the investigation is continuing says the FBI.
According to the FBI, law enforcement later discovered three pipe bombs and two smaller devices at a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey, near to Newark Liberty International Airport.
Local CBS says that a suspicious device was discovered on the rail tracks and is being examined by a robot.
All train traffic out of Manhattan to New Jersey was immediately halted while the bomb squad was dispatched.
The FBI confirmed that it is connected to the Chelsea bombing from Saturday night.
The explosions happened on the same day a pipe bomb went off near a Marine Corps charity run in New Jersey and nine people were stabbed by a man at Minnesota mall – leading some to say America underwent three terror attacks in the space of 12 hours.
Three pipe bombs found in New Jersey and two IEDs that terrorized New York City on Saturday all have one thing in common – cell phones.
An old-school flip phone was used as a timer in all five home-made bombs.
All phones used as detonators were similar in design, according to PIX 11.
Out of the five devices found or detonated on Saturday, three failed to work as designed.
An undetonated pressure-cooker explosive had a cell phone attached to it and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the device was similar to the one that exploded in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea.
Additionally, the devices found in New Jersey contained an easily obtainable explosive black powder.
Residue of an explosive often used for target practice that can be picked up in many sporting goods stores was also found in the Manhattan bombing, a federal law enforcement official said Sunday.
