Updated | New York bombings suspect apprehended

A 28-year-old immigrant wanted for questioning in the bombings that rocked a New York City neighbourhood and a New Jersey shore town, was taken into custody after a shoot-out with police in New Jersey.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalised US citizen from Afghanistan with an address in Elizabeth, New Jersey, had been reported by police and federal authorities to be armed and dangerous.

Police did not disclose how they zeroed in on Rahami but were known to be poring over surveillance video. At the same time, five people who were pulled over in a vehicle Sunday night were questioned by the FBI, officials said.

The bulletin and the photo of Rahami were issued after a weekend of fear and dread in New York and New Jersey.

In addition to the blast that injured 29 people in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood on Saturday, an unexploded pressure cooker bomb was found blocks away, and a pipe bomb exploded in a New Jersey shore town before a charity race. No one was injured there.

On Monday morning, five explosive devices were discovered in a trash can at an Elizabeth train station.

Also on Saturday, a man who authorities say referred to Allah, wounded nine people in a stabbing rampage at a Minnesota mall before being shot to death by an off-duty police officer. ISIS claimed responsibility.

Authorities have not drawn any connection between the violence in Minnesota and the bombings in the New York area.

Citing the FBI, New Jersey State Police said however that the bombings in Chelsea and the New Jersey shore town Seaside Park were connected.