Police tipped off by an alert street vendor found and defused a car bomb inside a sport utility vehicle in an incident that forced the evacuation of New York's Times Square on Saturday and could have turned into a "very deadly event," authorities said early on Sunday.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a news conference that "we have no idea who did this and why." He said the bomb appeared to have been made in an amateurish manner.
Times Square is a popular tourist destination in Manhattan's Midtown.
"We are very lucky. Thanks to alert New Yorkers and professional police officers, we avoided what could have been a very deadly event," Bloomberg said.
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