No link between New York bomb, Minnesota stabbing — police

There is no evidence at this point of a link between the New York bombing that injured 29 people and a Minnesota stabbing spree that wounded at least eight, police say.

Chief William Blair Anderson of the St. Cloud police force in Minnesota tells CNN that “right now we don’t have any evidence to suggest that they were connected,” but he confirms that the attacker in his city had asked people if they were Muslim before stabbing them.

New York mayor Bill de Blasio says officials still do not know if the bomb there had a political or a personal motivation.

“We do not know the motivation, we do not know the nature of it,” de Blasio says.

“All possible theories of what’s happened here and how it connects will be looked at but we have no specific evidence at this point in time,” the mayor says.

All 29 people who were injured in a bombing in New York have been released from the hospital.

— Agencies