The blast came as five men
were detained and questioned over a bomb attack in New York on Saturday night,
which left 29 injured.
New York governor Andrew
Cuomo said the investigation was moving quickly and it may "soon be
targeting a person of interest".
Five suspicious devices
have been found in a backpack near a train station in New Jersey, with one
exploding during attempts to disarm it.
Following the discovery,
the FBI have carried out a search warrant at a premises in the city of
Elizabeth.
Pictures have emerged of a
raid on a fried chicken outlet close to where the devices were found late on
Sunday.
Earlier, footage was
released of the moment the device disappeared in a fireball, as FBI bomb squad
robots moved in.
It has been reported the
bomb that detonated in Manhattan, and another unexploded device found nearby,
were both shrapnel-filled pressure cookers, similar to those used in the attack
on the Boston Marathon in 2013.
The devices in Elizabeth,
less than 15 miles southwest of Manhattan, were found by two men in a backpack
left in a bin.
The city's mayor, Christian
Bollwage, told Sky News the pair had alerted authorities after they "saw
wires and a pipe".
Up to five devices were
found in the bag and when the robot cut a wire on one of them to try and
disable it, it exploded.
Mr Bollange said: "I
can imagine that if all five of them went off at the same time, that the loss
of life could have been enormous if there was an event going on."
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