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New York officials on Tuesday said they charged a Bangladeshi man with terrorism, accusing him of setting off a pipe bomb a day earlier in a crowded Manhattan commuter hub, as investigators in his home country questioned his wife.
Akayed Ullah, 27, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, supporting an act of terrorism, and making a terroristic threat under New York state law, the New York Police Department said, adding US authorities may also bring federal charges.
Investigators in Bangladesh were questioning Ullah’s wife, according to two officials who declined to be identified as they were not permitted to discuss the matter publicly. They did not provide details on the questioning, but said the couple have a six-month-old baby boy.
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“We have found his wife and in-laws in Dhaka. We are interviewing them,” one of the police officials said.
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.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called it an attempted terrorist attack, and US officials said it appeared to be a rare if not unprecedented attempt at suicide bombing on US soil.
Ullah survived with burns and lacerations and was taken to hospital in police custody. The three bystanders sustained minor injuries.
The NYPD and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were conducting the investigation in conjunction with other agencies through the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and were asking the public for any information about the suspect.
A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his or her ethnicity or religion, and must be brought to justice
Bangladeshi government
Authorities in Bangladesh began to track down Ullah’s family soon after news of the attack broke and they first found a cousin, said a third official, Mahiuddin Mahmud.
“We learned from his cousin that he had a wife and a baby in Bangladesh,” Mahmud said.
The cousin, Emdad Ullah, said Ullah and his family originally lived in the Chittagong region in southern Bangladesh, but had moved to the capital, Dhaka, years ago.
Ullah married a Bangladeshi woman about two years ago and she lived in Dhaka, the cousin said, adding that he was educated in Bangladesh before he moved to the United States.
Bangladesh’s police chief said on Monday that Ullah had no criminal record in his home country, which he last visited in September.
Ullah lived with his mother, sister and two brothers in Brooklyn and was a green card holder, said Shameem Ahsan, consul general of Bangladesh in New York.
A US enforcement official familiar with the investigation into Monday’s attack said officers had found evidence that Ullah had watched Islamic State propaganda on the internet.
Bangladesh strongly condemned the attack.
“A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his or her ethnicity or religion, and must be brought to justice,” the government said in a statement.
US President Donald Trump on Monday said the attack emphasised the need for US immigration reforms.
“America must fix its lax immigration system, which allows far too many dangerous, inadequately vetted people to access our country,” he said in a statement.

The president also criticised the visa programme that allowed Ullah to enter the United States in 2011 because he had family members already in the country, saying such family visas are “incompatible with national security.”
H.T. Imam, a political adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said he believed the attack would have no “negative impact” on relations with the United States.
“The US government is well informed about the Bangladesh government’s attitude regarding terror activities,” Imam said.
The US Supreme Court last week handed a victory to Trump by allowing his latest travel ban, targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries, to go into full effect even as legal challenges continued in lower courts.
The ban covers people from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen seeking to enter the United States. Trump has said the travel ban is needed to protect the United States from


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Akayed Ullah, the man accused of detonating a pipe bomb in a crowded New York subway station. Photo: AFP

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 11: Police stand along 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan near the site of a pipe bomb explosion on December 11, 2017 in New York City. Police said that Akayed Ullah, 27, a Bangladeshi immigrant living in Brooklyn, set off the pipe bomb, which was attached to his body, in an underground passageway linking the Port Authority Bus Terminal with the subway. John Moore/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

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Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, the dual Canadian-Bangladeshi national, in his early 30s, is thought by counterterrorism officials to lead a faction of the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant group. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

Photo taken July 5, 2016, shows flowers laid near a Dhaka restaurant at which 20 hostages, including nine Italians and one person each from the United States and India as well as the seven Japanese, were killed during a terror attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Bangladeshi police stand guard near the house where police killed nine suspected Islamist extremists in Dhaka on July 26, 2016, in a gun-battle after storming a hideout where they said a new mass attack was being planned. Bangladeshi police killed nine suspected Islamist extremists in a gun-battle July 26 after storming a hideout where they said a new mass attack was being planned. Police said they belonged to a Bangladeshi group blamed for an attack on a Dhaka cafe earlier this month in which 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, were killed and had been planning another large-scale assault. / AFP PHOTO / APF / STR

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Many Bangladeshis are yearning for Islamic rule since the country won independence from Pakistan in 1971, analysts say. Photo: AP

FILE - In this March 25, 2016, file photo, Bangladeshi policemen stand guard outside Bangladesh national mosque as members of various Islamic political groups and other Muslims attend Friday prayers before a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The July 1, 2016 deadly attack, the worst in a wave of violence waged by radical Islamists in recent years, speaks to a deeper divide within the nation of 160 million - one that has pitted secularists against those yearning for Islamic rule since the country won independence from Pakistan in a bloody war in 1971. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this July 4, 2016, file photo, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offers her tribute to the victims of an attack on Holey Artisan Bakery, at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The July 1, 2106 deadly restaurant attack in Dhaka speaks to a deeper divide that has pitted secularists against those yearning for Islamic rule since Bangladesh won independence in 1971. In recent years, Hasina has cracked down on the myriad of militant groups in Bangladesh, banning many and arresting their leaders. Some were convicted in opaque war-crimes court proceedings of collaborating with Pakistani forces in committing wartime atrocities and were executed. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - In this May 5, 2013, file photo, Islamic activists block a road in Dhaka, Bangladesh during a protest to demand that the government enact an anti-blasphemy law. The July 1, 2016 deadly attack, the worst in a wave of violence waged by radical Islamists in recent years, speaks to a deeper divide within the nation of 160 million - one that has pitted secularists against those yearning for Islamic rule since the country won independence from Pakistan in a bloody war in 1971. (AP Photo, File)

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Policemen patrol outside the Holey Artisan Bakery and the O'Kitchen Restaurant as others inspect the site after gunmen attacked, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 3, 2016. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

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Bangladeshi man Akayed Ullah charged with terrorism over New York subway attack as authorities question his wife in homeland

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}The Bangladesh embassy in Washington DC condemned the New York bomb attack and restated Bangladesh’s “zero tolerance” approach to extremism

The Bangladesh embassy in Washington DC condemned the New York bomb attack and restated Bangladesh’s “zero tolerance” approach to extremism