Bangladeshi man responsible for Manhattan explosion

Reuters report in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 12, 2017
A Bangladeshi man with a homemade bomb strapped to his body set off an explosion at a New York commuter hub during rush hour on Monday, wounding himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called an attempted terrorist attack.
The suspect in the incident at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, a block from Times Square, was identified as Akayed Ullah, the New York Police Department commissioner said.
The suspect had burns and lacerations while three other people, including a police officer, sustained minor injuries.
The bomber is in serious condition at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York.
The injured Bangladeshi suicide bomber is seen on the ground after being tackled by New York policeman at the Port Authority Bus Terminal subway station on Monday, December 12, 2017 New York Post
Akayed Ullah is from of Chittagong and is a US resident, said Bangladesh’ Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque.
He had no criminal record there and last visited Bangladesh on September 8, Shahidul Hoque said.
According to witnesses, the man partially detonated the device, which he was carrying under the right side of his jacket, prematurely inside the station.
US President Donald Trump was briefed on the explosion, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote on Twitter.
Ullah had a black cab/limousine driver’s license from 2012 to 2015, after which it expired, the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission said.
The weapon was based on a pipe bomb and fixed to the suspect with zip ties and velcro, police said. New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo, speaking at a news conference near the site, described the device as “amateur-level.”
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told the same news conference that the incident, which happened at the start of the city’s rush hour, was “an attempted terrorist attack.”
“As New Yorkers our lives revolve around the subways. When we hear of an attack in the subways, it is incredibly unsettling,” de Blasio said.
New York City was a target, said John Miller, deputy police commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism.
Miller cited the attacks of September 11, 2001, that killed more than 2,750 people in New York and nearly 3,000 people total; and the World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1993, which killed six people.
“In the course of the post-9/11 world, as you are aware, there’s also been approximately 26 plots that we can talk about that have been prevented through intelligence, investigation and intervention.”
The incident was captured on security video, police said. Video posted on nypost.com showed smoke and a man lying in the tunnel that connects sections of the Times Square subway station and the bus station. A photograph showed a man lying facedown, with tattered clothes and burns on his torso.
The bus terminal was temporarily shut down and a large swath of midtown Manhattan was closed to traffic. Subway train service returned to normal after earlier disruptions.
WABC reported the suspect was in his 20s and that he has been in the United States for seven years and has an address in New York’s Brooklyn borough. Police shut down the entire block and there was a heavy police presence outside the home. www.dhakatribune.com/world/north-america/2017/12/11/ny-post-claims-manhattan-bomber-bangladeshi-origin-new-yorker/