Five people are being questioned by the FBI in connection with the bomb attack in New York that left 29 people injured.
Authorities say FBI agents pulled over a car on a road in Brooklyn and are questioning the vehicle's occupants as part of the investigation into Saturday's bombing.
FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser said agents stopped "a vehicle of interest in the investigation" at 8.45pm local time on Sunday.
She declined to provide further details, but a government official and a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told the Associated Press five people in the car were being questioned at an FBI building in Lower Manhattan.
Ms Langmesser said no one has been charged with any crime and the investigation is continuing.
Meanwhile, investigators are examining a suspicious device found in a bin near a New Jersey train station.
Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage said two men called police and reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of the package after finding it at around 9.30 pm on Sunday.
As authorities continue to try to unravel who planted the device and why, a law enforcement official told AP the bomb contained traces of Tannerite, an explosive often used for target practice that can be bought in sports stores.
The discovery could prove crucial as work continues to find out if the explosion is connected to an unexploded pressure-cooker device found just streets away, as a well as a pipe bomb that exploded in New Jersey earlier that day.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, touring the site of the explosion in Manhattan's Chelsea neighbourhood, said there did not appear to be any link to international terrorism.
He said the second device appeared to be "similar in design" to the first, but did not provide any more details.
"We're going to be very careful and patient to get to the full truth here," Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
"We have more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this.
"Was it a political motivation? A personal motivation? What was it? We do not know that yet."
Mobile phones were found at the site of both the New York and New Jersey bombings, but no Tannerite residue was detected in the remnants of the latter, the official said, adding a black powder was discovered.
Authorities said the Manhattan blast and the explosion in New Jersey at the site of a charity race to benefit Marines and sailors did not appear to be connected, although they also said they were not ruling anything out.
The event in Seaside Park was cancelled and no one was injured.
Officials have not revealed any details about the makeup of the pressure-cooker device, only to say that it had wires and a phone attached to it.
Technicians are now examining evidence from the Manhattan bombing, which was described by witnesses as a deafening blast that shattered windows and hit bystanders with shrapnel.
All of those who were injured by the explosion had been released from hospital by Sunday afternoon.
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