Was the New York Bombing an ISIS Attack?

On Saturday, September 17th, an explosion from a pressure cooker bomb shocked New York City’s town of Chelsea, which is filled with a variety of restaurants, subway stations, malls, businesses and art galleries, and had the panicked citizens scrambling for safety.

The bomb went off on the night of September 17th in Manhattan’s city of Chelsea, which is just a few minutes away from the Empire State Building. The explosion happened just outside a building on 23rd Street and injured 29 people; the police located and removed a second, undetonated pressure cooker bomb that they found on 27th Street while looking for more clues. A suspect named Ahmad Khan Rahami was seen on a video surveillance where the bomb went off and by the location of the second bomb. Rahami was captured two days later after a gunfight in Linden, New Jersey.

While the bombing is seen as an act of terrorism, investigators are still searching for clues to figure out if Ahmad Khan Rahami was working alone. Since another bomb went off in New Jersey on the same day, investigators are saying that both bombings were planted by the same suspect. Twenty-five of the injured people were released from the hospital with minor injures the day following the explosion.