{"id":249626,"date":"2016-09-19T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=249626"},"modified":"2016-09-19T12:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:06:27","slug":"new-york-bombing-ahmad-khan-rahami-ided-as-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=249626","title":{"rendered":"New York bombing: Ahmad Khan Rahami IDed as suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-body\">\n<div class=\"story-body__inner\">\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">New York officials have identified a suspect wanted for questioning over Saturday&#8217;s blast in the Chelsea area in which 29 people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been identified as Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalised US citizen from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Police Department (NYPD) has released a photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Monday, a backpack containing up to five devices exploded in Elizabeth, New Jersey when a bomb disposal robot tried to deactivate it.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have warned the suspect, whose last known address was in Elizabeth should be considered &#8220;armed and dangerous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who sees this individual or knows anything about him or his whereabouts needs to call it in right away,&#8221; New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Both the bomb that went off in New York and a device found nearby were shrapnel-filled pressure cookers, according to US media.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear who was behind the devices found in New Jersey, at the railway station in Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/3D54\/production\/_91300751_rahami_wanted_poster.jpg\" alt=\"FBI poster on Ahmad Khan Rahami\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"share share--lightweight  show ghost-column\">\n<div id=\"share-tools\">\u00a0&#8211;<\/div>\n<div>Source: BBC<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York officials have identified a suspect wanted for questioning over Saturday&#8217;s blast in the Chelsea area in which 29 people were injured. The man has been identified as Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalised US citizen from Afghanistan. The New York Police Department (NYPD) has released a photograph. Early on Monday, a backpack containing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":249628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[11894,42,11895,1516],"class_list":["post-249626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-ahmad-khan-rahami","tag-ghana","tag-new-york-bombings","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}