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Device on New York subway train causes injuries - Police response

Title
Device on New York subway train causes injuries - Police response
Genre
Press conference
TX Date
21 Dec 1994
Year of production
1994
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Duration
00:00:53
Description
Press statement by New York Chief of Police, William Bratton, following an explosion that ripped through a New York City subway train. Police say the blast at a station near Wall Street was caused by a homemade incendiary device. The device is believed to have blown up in the lap of a man on the train, which was crowded with Christmas shoppers. Chief Bratton says the incendiary device was a small glass jar filled with a flammable liquid and an external igniter. Around thirty-seven people are believed to be injured, three of them seriously.
Contributors
William Bratton
Keywords
USA; Terrorism; Police; Public transport; Railway transport; Underground trains; Underground railway networks; Bombs; Underground railway stations; New York (city)

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