TerrorismExplosive devices found in New Jersey train station

An explosive device found in a backpack near the Elizabeth, New Jersey train station exploded as a bomb squad robot tried to disarm it.

The bag was discovered in a trash can at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

Mayor Christian Bollwage told reporters that the FBI robot accidentally cut the wrong wire while working to disarm one of five devices found in the bag.

“The robots that were going it to disarm it cut a wire and it exploded,” the mayor told CNN. “I don’t know the technological aspect of that. I know there are other devices.

“I don’t know what they are made up of but they are going to have to be removed and all the fragments from the other pieces are going to have to be picked up so the FBI can investigate this fully.”

NJ Transit services were suspended early Monday between Newark Liberty Airport and Elizabeth, and New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains were being held at New York Penn Station,  while New York-bound Amtrak trains were being held in Trenton.

Bomb squads from the FBI and local police are continuing the investigation at the train station in midtown Elizabeth.

Officials said that initial indications are that the Manhattan and New Jersey incidents did not appear to be connected, though they were not ruling anything out.

The blast in Manhattan, and the devices which were found in Manhattan and New Jersey before they exploded, were preceded on the same Sunday by an explosion which went off near a Marine Corps charity run in New Jersey, and the attack by a man who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall.