

“It was initially, just a horrendous, horrendous exploding noise. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Larson told CBS. Michael Larson, a New Jersey Transit employee, said he saw the train come into the station at a high speed, hop over the bumper block, and travel 40ft before hitting the waiting room and coming to a rest. Earlier in September, Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested for planting multiple bombs across New York and New Jersey. “These are difficult times over these past weeks and months between terrorist attacks, natural disasters, we have had our hands full in this country, we have had our hands full in the north-east,” Cuomo said.

“The silver lining is there has only been one fatality so far,” New York governor Andrew Cuomo added. The dead victim was a woman who was hit by debris while waiting at the terminal, New Jersey governor Chris Christie said at a press conference, adding that most of the injuries were suffered by people on the train.
