In a complaint filed in federal court, Ahmad Khan Rahami was charged with several crimes, including the use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use, in the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey.
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“….The explosion propelled the more-than-100-pound dumpster more than 120 feet.
2. The blast shattered windows as far as approximately 400 feet from the detonation site and, vertically, more than three stories high…….
3. Fragmentation from the pressure cooker was recovered as far as approximately 650 feet from the detonation site.
4. In order to increase fragmentation, and thus likely to increase the lethality of the device, the bomb was packed with ball bearings and steel nuts, hundreds of which were recovered from the blast site.
ii. Approximately 31 people – including at least one national of a foreign state (the United Kingdom) suffered injuries from the 23rd Street Bomb.
1. These injuries included, among other things, lacerations to the face, abdomen, legs, and arms caused by flying glass; metal shrapnel and fragmentation embedded in skin and bone; and various head injuries.
2. At least one victim was hospitalized and had to have multiple ball bearings removed from her body, as well as metal fragmentation from her ear and wood shards from her neck.
3. At least one victim was knocked unconscious by the blast while driving in his car by the site of the bomb.
4. Another victim suffered a head injury when the blast hit the vehicle in which she was traveling…..”