© FBI / ReutersAn image of Ahmad Khan Rahami, who is wanted for questioning in connection with an explosion in New York City, is seen in a a poster released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on September 19, 2016.
Police in Linden, New Jersey have arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami, named as the suspect in the multiple explosions in New Jersey and New York over the weekend. Though no one was killed, police are treating the blasts as possible terrorism.
Rahami was identified in an unusual alert sent to the general public via mobile devices on Monday morning. The "Be on the lookout" (BOLO) notice described him as 5'6" tall, driving a 2003 blue Honda Civic with New Jersey license plates. It also identified him as a naturalized US citizen, born in Afghanistan in 1988.
Authorities have
"directly linked" Rahami to the Saturday evening blast in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, as well as a Saturday morning explosion at Seaside Park, New Jersey, minutes before the start of a Marine Corps charity race.
He was also linked to the Sunday evening blast at the Elizabeth, NJ train station.
The FBI declined to disclose the nature of the connection, citing an ongoing investigation.
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