Following terror attacks over the weekend, barricades were up and access gates down on Tuesday for a beefed up and extended ring of security around UN Headquarters during this year's annual gathering of world leaders for the General Debate of the UN General Assembly.
Local officials pledged even heavier security around the world body's campus in the Midtown East area of Manhattan following bombings Saturday in Seaside Park in the adjacent US state of New Jersey and later that night on New York City's West Side.
The bombings put enormous pressure on the city's law enforcement as about 140 heads of state or government are gathering for this week's event at the United Nations.
"We're going to have more security personnel than ever assembled over this next week during the UN General Assembly," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in interviews with CNN on Monday morning.
City authorities said they had bolstered an already heavy security force with 1,000 more uniformed police officers and National Guard members.
The security personnel were deployed elsewhere around Midtown Manhattan in addition to near the world body's headquarters, running from 42nd to 48th streets along First Avenue.
A suspect, a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was arrested Monday in New Jersey after a shootout with police.
The 28-year-old Afghanistan-born American was linked to both the blast that injured 29 people in the bustling Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea Saturday night and the pipe bombing in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
[Xinhua/china]
21/9/16
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Local officials pledged even heavier security around the world body's campus in the Midtown East area of Manhattan following bombings Saturday in Seaside Park in the adjacent US state of New Jersey and later that night on New York City's West Side.
The bombings put enormous pressure on the city's law enforcement as about 140 heads of state or government are gathering for this week's event at the United Nations.
"We're going to have more security personnel than ever assembled over this next week during the UN General Assembly," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in interviews with CNN on Monday morning.
City authorities said they had bolstered an already heavy security force with 1,000 more uniformed police officers and National Guard members.
The security personnel were deployed elsewhere around Midtown Manhattan in addition to near the world body's headquarters, running from 42nd to 48th streets along First Avenue.
A suspect, a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was arrested Monday in New Jersey after a shootout with police.
The 28-year-old Afghanistan-born American was linked to both the blast that injured 29 people in the bustling Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea Saturday night and the pipe bombing in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
[Xinhua/china]
21/9/16
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