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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Manhattan chapter.

1. It happened on Saturday September 17th 2016. The bombs started around 9am with one bomb in New Jersey and then another in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood around 8:30pm at night. More bombs were set to go off that day but law enforcment were able to locate them and dissmantle them.

2. The one in New Jersey was set off inside of a garbage can and the one in Manahttan was set off inside of a dumpster. (A clue from the begning indicating that the two bombs were in connection with eachother.)

3. The bomb that did not go off was a pressure cooker bomb connected to a cell phone just like the one used in the Bosten Marthon bombing.

4. No deaths were confirmed but 29 people were injured and 26 of them were in need of medical attention.  

5. The man responsible for the bombings, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was already discovered and in custody not even not even three whole days after the incidents occured.