Source: DTN News ~ Compiled By Roger Smith
(NSI News Source Info) NEW YORK, U.S. - May 2, 2010: The popular tourist spot in Manhattan has been cleared after a suspicious vehicle was found near a production of "The Lion King".
New York's Times Square evacuated over bomb threat ~ IN PICTURES
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In this image taken from video, A police officer approaches the vehicle containing a car bomb, which stands with the door open and red canisters on the roadway at New York's Times Square, NY, U.S.A. , Sunday, May 2, 2010. Police cleared the streets around Times Square when the vehicle was seen to be smoking late Saturday evening, before recovering un-detonated bomb components including cans of gasoline, tanks of propane, fireworks and other electrical equipment from the sport utility vehicle.
Members of the NYPD Bomb Squad in New York's Times Square May 1, 2010. Police evacuated Times Square on Saturday night after a dark-colored sports utility vehicle was found to be smoking and a small "flash" was observed by firefighters on the scene.
Crime scene investigators examine a Nissan Pathfinder sport utility vehicle that was packed with bomb materials in New York's Times Square, May 1, 2010. Police tipped off by a street vendor found and defused a car bomb inside a sport utility vehicle, thwarting an "act of terrorism" that forced the evacuation of New York's Times Square on Saturday and could have killed many people, authorities said early on Sunday.
A police vehicle is seen in Times Square in New York, Sunday, May 2, 2010. Authorities say police have found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday that thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets for 10 hours after a T-shirt vendor alerted police to the suspicious vehicle, which contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon (20-liter) gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components.
NEW YORK - MAY 02: Police cruisers stand by at sunrise at the scene where a crude car bomb had been parked at 45th Street and 7th Avenue in Times Square May 2, 2010 in New York, New York. Police found a crude but potentially powerful bomb in vehicle in Times Square and disabled it, clearing out the famous intersection of thousands of tourists on a busy Saturday night.
NEW YORK - MAY 02: Police stand by at sunrise at the scene where a crude car bomb had been parked at 45th Street and 7th Avenue in Times Square May 2, 2010 in New York, New York. Police found a crude but potentially powerful bomb in vehicle in Times Square and disabled it, clearing out the famous intersection of thousands of tourists on a busy Saturday night.
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