USA
SPENCER PLATT
New York— Passers-by stand behind police lines after a homemade bomb in a dumpster injured 29 people in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on September 17. Police found a second device made with a pressure cooker four blocks away. There was no immediate word on a motive for the attack, which came the same day as a pipe bomb exploded before a running race in New Jersey. The following day, a number of pipe bombs were found in a backpack on top of a municipal garbage can in Elizabeth, New Jersey. About 36 hours after the Chelsea blast, police announced that they had arrested a suspect.