Counter-terrorism officials were on Sunday searching for a bomber at large after 29 people were injured by a roadside blast in New York and a suspected unexploded second bomb was found nearby by police. “Whoever placed these bombs, we will find and they will be brought to justice,” New York governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters at the scene. The device drew comparisons to pressure cooker bombs that exploded amid crowds at the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding dozens of others. Directions for how to build pressure cooker bombs in a home kitchen notoriously featured in the first issue of Inspire, an English-language online magazine affiliated with al-Qaida. One witness to the New York explosion, Deborah Griffith, told the Guardian she had seen the blast “like a volcano”.

Source: The Guardian September 18, 2016 15:28 UTC