U.S. terror blast suspect detained

The alleged perpetrator of the New York and New Jersey bomb attacks had travelled to the Afghan city of Kandahar and to the Pakistani city of Quetta - a stronghold of the Taliban - where he married in 2011.  Between 2013 and 2014, he spent 11 months in Pakistan

PRESSURE COOKER BOMB Bomb detonated on Saturday in New York, and device found nearby, are similar to bombs used at 2013 Boston marathon

Detonator Attached to lid

Trigger Believed to be mobile phone

Shrapnel Ball bearings

Explosives HMTD* detected

Authorities are looking for Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, naturalised U.S. citizen from Afghanistan

UNITED STATES

NEW JERSEY

NEW YORK

40km 25 miles

CHELSEA

W27th St.

Second bomb found

W23rd St.

Bomb explosion

MANHATTAN

400m 1,300ft

Saturday, 9:30am (all times local) Seaside Park, New Jersey: Pipe bomb explodes on route of charity race causing no injuries

8:30pm, Chelsea, Manhattan: Explosion rocks West 23rd Street injuring 29 people. Second device found four blocks from site of blast destroyed in controlled explosion

9:00pm, St. Cloud, Minnesota: Man wearing security uniform stabs nine people at shopping mall. So-called Islamic State says attacker was one of group’s “soldiers”

Sunday 8:30pm, Elizabeth, New Jersey: Backpack containing five suspicious devices found inside rubbish bin near station. One device explodes early on Monday as bomb disposal robot tries to deactivate it

Source: NYPD

Picture: FBI

* home-made hexamethylene triperoxide diamine