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Day 2: Taxi driver 'intentionally' detonated crude bomb made of Xmas lights, sugar and match heads in NYC subway tunnel after 'seeing Christmas posters on wall' and days after 'big row with his family'
[DailyMail] Follow up to the events of yesterday.- A pipe bomb prematurely went off in an underground tunnel linking the Times Square subway station and the Port Authority bus terminal Monday morning around 7:20am
- The suspect has been identified as unmarried 27-year-old green-card holder Akayed Ullah
- Ullah came to the U.S. seven years ago from Bangladesh on a visa for people who have family in the U.S.
- He was the only one seriously injured in the blast
- Ullah was taken to Bellevue Hospital for serious burns and lacerations to his hands and abdomen
- CNN reports that the bomb detonated prematurely and that if it had gone off as intended the damage could have been catastrophic
- Ullah says he made the explosive himself last week, after reading instructions on the internet
- The FBI has been swarming multiple addresses connected to Ullah in Brooklyn
- His parents have since released a statement saying they are 'outraged' by the treatment of their family
- Neighbors say they heard yelling and screaming coming for the apartment the last two nights and that Ullah was not a friendly person
- Ullah told investigators that he carried out the attack as revenge for recent actions by Israelis against Muslim Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
- The incident happened just days after President Trump sparked demonstrations across the world by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital city
- Trump said in a statement that 'lax' immigration policies were to blame for the attack, and urged Congress to 'enact legislative reforms to protect the American people'
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-12 |
