29 people injured in explosion in NYC

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    here is our weekly bombing thread

    An explosion rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people, authorities said, adding that they are investigating the blast as a criminal act not immediately linked to any terror organization.

    Mayor Bill de Blasio said early indications were that blast was intentional. He said the site of the explosion, outside on a major thoroughfare of a fashionable enclave in one of the most bustling areas of New York City, was being treated as a crime scene.

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    Police combing the area around the scene of an explosion on Saturday in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood found a pressure cooker nearby connected to a cell phone with wires attached, CNN reported, citing law enforcement sources.

    One witness told the New York Daily News that he saw the back of an SUV "totally blown out" after hearing the explosion while entering the subway.

    "Everybody started running and screaming," the witness said.

    Another witness said he saw at least one person injured on the scene.
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    https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...on-reported-in-chelsea-in-manhattan/21474096/

    They apparently do not want to call this a terrorist attack right now, but also have a special terrorism task force investigating it too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Lotta people, including PC members, live in New York City so....

    There was also this:
    Earlier on Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded near the route of a 5K race charity race in the beach town of Seaside Heights, New Jersey. No one was injured, but federal authorities are investigating the incident as possible terrorism.
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    Though who knows if this is related or not.
     
    This is terrorism regardless of who did it. The thing is that they have to say "we're not calling it terrorism" or stupid people will automatically assume it's ISIS-related (because of course they're the only people who bomb stuff).

    Hopefully nobody was hurt too badly and nobody from PC or connected to PCers was harmed.
     
    Just another saturday night then? This is terrible, but terrorism is all to common-place.
     
    Yep, 100% agree with GP on this. It's terrorism no matter who did it. You don't have to be in Isis to be a terrorist. You definitely don't have to be Muslim to be a terrorist. (BECAUSE MUSLIMS. AREN'T. TERRORISTS. Terrorists are terrorists. They come in all religions and races, thank you very much.)

    But yeah, this is terrible. Honestly, it's not even surprising, and that makes it even more sad. Luckily, it doesn't sound like anybody died. I hate that things like this still happen and probably always will.
     
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