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Two Police Officers Injured in Shootout With New York Area Bombing Suspect

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Two police officers from Linden, New Jersey were shot during a confrontation with the New York area bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, New York police commissioner James O'Neill stated in a press conference on Monday.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, who is wanted for questioning in connection with an explosion in New York City, is seen in this image taken from video, released by the New Jersey State Police - Sputnik International
Suspected Manhattan Bomber Ahmad Rahami Taken Into Custody in New Jersey
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Earlier on Monday, two Linden, New Jersey police officers confronted and shot Rahami outside a bar. One officer was struck in an exchange of gunfire and a second was injured by glass, but neither is in critical condition, Park explained.

"We had two police officers that were injured out in Linden, New Jersey," O'Neill stated.

Rahami is a suspect in three separate weekend incidents in the New York metropolitan area.

On Saturday night, an explosion in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood injured 29 people. A second device was discovered on nearby 23rd Street.

Earlier in the day, a bomb exploded near a US Marine Corps charity race in the city of Seaside Park, New Jersey, about 80 miles south of New York. No one was hurt in the New Jersey incident. On Monday morning, a third bomb exploded near a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey as police were trying to disarm the device.

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