TSA will bring suicide vest-detection technology to New York City's Penn Station

"Suicide vest-detection technology is coming to New York City's Penn Station.

US Sen Chuck Schumer said Monday that the federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will start testing the screening equipment on Tuesday.

'At long last and at not a moment too soon, the TSA has agreed to bring this new, potentially life-saving technology to New York City and Penn Station for testing, and so we thank the TSA for heeding the call,' Schumer said.


'When I made the push to bring this technology to New York City it was because we need to put it on the fast-track and we need to perfect it, because if it works, this is where we want it: in New York City's busiest transit hubs.'

The Democrat called for the technology to be tested in New York City after a Bangladeshi immigrant injured himself setting off a crude pipe bomb strapped to his chest in December in a subway passageway.

Suspect Akayed Ullah, 27, told investigators at the time that he meant to detonate his homemade pipe bomb in the busy Port Authority subway station after seeing the walls festooned with Christmas posters - in revenge for violence against Muslims all over the world."




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