Multiple IEDs found in package at New Jersey train station

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Elizabeth, New Jersey (CNN)Federal and local authorities are investigating another suspicious item after a backpack was found containing up to five devices in New Jersey on Sunday.

The FBI Newark tweeted that it was “a suspicious package with multiple improvised explosive devices.”

The backpack was found in a wastebasket in Elizabeth, New Jersey, outside a neighborhood pub and located about 500 feet from a train trestle, said the city’s mayor Chris Bollwage.

“Whoever threw it into the can was probably trying to get rid of it. It’s not in a highly congested area,” Bollwage told CNN.

On Sunday around 9:30 p.m., two men found the backpack in the garbage can and alerted police when they saw wires and a pipe, he said. No cell phones or electronic timing devices were found on the devices, the mayor said.

There is no indication whether the latest incident in Elizabeth is connected to the bombing in a New York City neighborhood that injured 29 people and the explosion from a garbage can near a charity run in New Jersey. In the other New Jersey incident, investigators discovered three pipe-bomb-type devices wired together, but no one was wounded.

Bomb technicians from the FBI, the county and the New Jersey State Police arrived on scene in Elizabeth and a robot was sent to examine the devices.

“In the course of rendering one of the devices safe, it detonated. There are no injuries & law enforcement personnel are at the scene processing evidence,” according to a tweet from FBI Newark account.

The device was detonated in a controlled setting, Bollwage said. The sound of the explosion reverberated loudly as heard on video filmed by local media.

“The robots that went in to disarm it, cut a wire and it exploded. I know there are other devices, I don’t know what they’re made up of but they’re going to have to be removed,” Bollwage said.