New York Car Bomb, Time Square Car Bomb
Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 12:24 pm
New York Car Bomb, Time Sq
uare Car Bomb: Police found an apparent car bomb in a parked sport utility vehicle Saturday evening in New York City’s Times Square, then evacuated buildings and cleared streets of thousands of tourists in “the Crossroads of the World.”
A mounted police officer noticed smoke coming from the sport utility vehicle at 6:30 p.m. (2230 GMT), police said. Bomb investigators found propane tanks, powder and an apparent
timing device inside, according to a law enforcement official who wasn’t authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Police evacuated several residential and commercial buildings and cleared the streets of people. Police were deployed around the area with heavy weapons on empty streets in the heart of midtown Manhattan that normally teem with thousands of theatergoers and tourists.
The car was parked on 45th Street, and the block was closed between Seventh and Eighth avenues as a precaution, police said.
FBI agents are on the scene with the New York Police Department, and the matter is being taken seriously, said Paul Bresson, head of the FBI’s public affairs office at bureau headquarters in Washington.
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