Breaking News: NYPD investigating who placed pressure cookers in Fulton Street Station

[Skywatcher]

AP via Time:

Two abandoned objects that looked like pressure cookers prompted an evacuation of a major lower Manhattan subway station and disrupted the morning commute Friday before police determined they were not explosives.

Authorities were investigating whether they were deliberately placed to frighten people.

“The suspicion is that they were placed there to suggest that they were electronic devices and possible bombs,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on WCBS-AM.

[Xema]

It appears the devices are in fact rice cookers, which don’t operate under pressure - though they may have been intended to invoke a response as if they do.