Times Square bomb suspect charged with making terrorist threat – NYPD

New York officials on Tuesday said they had charged a Bangladeshi man with terrorism, accusing him of setting off a pipe bomb a day earlier in a crowded Manhattan commuter hub, Reuters reports. Akayed Ullah, 27, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, supporting an act of terrorism, and making a terrorist threat under New York state law, the New York Police Department said. US authorities may also bring federal charges. In Bangladesh, investigators were questioning Ullah’s wife, according to sources. New York police say Ullah set off a pipe bomb in an underground corridor of the subway system that connects Times Square to the Port Authority Bus Terminal at rush hour on Monday morning, injuring himself and three others.