Suspicious vehicle spotted in New York
May 14th, 2010 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANSNew York, May 14 (IANS) A vehicle with two gas canisters inside it has been spotted near Union Square here, a media report said.
Police and bomb squad agents were investigating the vehicle.
A pedestrian saw two gas canisters inside the parked car and called the police.
Xinhua news agency reported that streets and buildings nearby have been evacuated as a precaution, and bomb squad experts with a robot were working at the scene.
On May 1, a crude car bomb made from gasoline, propane, firecrackers and alarm clocks was discovered in a smoking van on Times Square. Two days later, Faisal Shahzad, a naturalised US citizen from Pakistan, was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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