Police slap terror charges on NY subway bombing suspect

NEW YORK: Police on Tuesday filed terror-related charges against a 27-year-old Bangladeshi driver accused of detonating a homemade pipe bomb strapped to his body in a crowded passage of the New York subway.Akayed Ullah, 27, of Brooklyn, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, supporting an act of terrorism and making a terroristic threat, police said. It was not immediately clear when he would be presented in court.

Ullah has been held in custody at a hospital after wounding himself and three other people at the Port Authority bus terminal, close to iconic Times Square, on Monday. In Dhaka, meanwhile, police are questioning the wife of Akayed Ullah who set off a pipe bomb in a crowded New York City commuter hub, two senior police officials in Bangladesh said.