New York suspicious vehicle is no bomb
By IANSFriday, May 14, 2010
NEW YORK - A suspicious vehicle parked near Union Square here triggering a bomb scare was early Friday declared to be harmless.
It was the latest bomb scare to hit the busy city after a failed bombing attempt at Times Square May 1 blamed on a man of Pakistani origin.
A pedestrian saw two gas canisters inside the car at around 10 p.m. Thursday and called the police. The New York University told Xinhua that more than 1,000 students were evacuated from the area.
Bomb squad experts armed with a robot didn’t find anything suspicious in the 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera parked outside the New York headquarters of Con Edison, the American electric utility, near Union Square.
Police then declared the area safe, Xinhua said.
On May 1, a crude car bomb made from gasoline, firecrackers and alarm clocks was spotted on Times Square.
Two days later, a naturalized US citizen from Pakistan, Faisal Shahzad, was arrested at the John F. Kennedy International Airport as he prepared to fly to Dubai. The man has admitted making the car bomb.
