Explosion Rattles Manhattan, With 25 Injuries

An explosion rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City Saturday night, with reports of multiple minor injuries. The New York Post reports that the explosion took place about 8:30pm in a dumpster outside a Manhattan building that provides services for the blind. (A witness told CNN that it wasn't a metal dumpster but a plastic trash bin of some sort.) In a tweet, fire officials say 25 people suffered injuries, though none appeared to be life-threatening. “It felt like a pipe bomb,” a Mercy College history professor tells the Daily News. Earlier Saturday, a pipe bomb went off in New Jersey before the start of a charity race. Nobody was injured in that incident. (More explosion stories.)