New York police defused a bomb found inside a sport utility vehicle that caused the evacuation of people from Times Square on Saturday night, the police chief said on Sunday.
Raymond Kelly said the device was in a special storage facility and posed no threat.
New York police cordoned off crowded Square Garden on Saturday night evacuating people from the area after detecting a suspicious vehicle that contained an improvised explosive device, ABC television channel reported.
"All reports indicate the vehicle contained gasoline, propane and possibly gun powder," ABC reported.
The channel reported earlier, citing various sources, that witnesses saw a smoke coming out of a Nissan Pathfinder parked in New York's theater district and called the police.
The car was, however, identified later as "a Land Rover with a Connecticut or unmatched license plate."
One of the witness said, according to ABC, that the car was driven in Times Square, was left with its headlights on and the driver ran away from it.
A bomb squad was called in and it blew out the vehicles' windows with water cannons in order to check the car.
NEW YORK, May 2 (RIA Novosti)
