New York bombing: Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami held

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New York bombings suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami is in custody after apparently being injured in a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey.

Footage showed him apparently conscious on a stretcher. Two police officers were injured in the exchange.Linden is four miles (6km) south-west of the city of Elizabeth, where further devices were found late on Sunday.

Linden Mayor Derek Armstead said the suspect was found by a bar owner sleeping in his hallway.When a police officer went to investigate and wake him up he realised he resembled the man in the wanted poster, the mayor said.

"Within moments the suspect fired on him. Thank God he had his vest on."The injured police officers are "ok and safe", Mr Armstead said.The 28-year-old Afghan-born US citizen had been named by the FBI as a suspect in Saturday's bombing in Manhattan.

President Barack Obama, speaking in New York, said officials did not believe there was a connection between events in New York and New Jersey and the stabbing attack in Minnesota, also on Saturday, in which nine people were injured.

That attack was apparently carried out by a 22-year-old ethnic Somali.

Mr Obama said it was "extremely fortunate" that nobody was killed in the bombings in New York and New Jersey.