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   From: dfisher@outlook.com   
      
   Christina Bethea was on her way to her security guard job in   
   Midtown Manhattan early Monday morning.   
      
   But she never made it to work.   
      
   The 29-year-old had arrived at the massive Port Authority   
   terminal after taking a bus from her home in Yonkers north of   
   the city and then a city subway. She was about to walk out of   
   the transit hub to her job.   
      
   “I walked down the stairs to go through the pathway that   
   connects to the Port Authority and when I got to the end of it I   
   heard a noise that went ‘boom’,” she told ABC News. “It sounded   
   like a big gunshot. One time.”   
      
   The explosive sound was the result of what authorities are   
   calling "an attempted terrorist attack" that injured three   
   people.   
      
   A 27-year-old suspect "intentionally detonated" an improvised,   
   low-tech explosive device that was based on a pipe bomb and was   
   attached to the suspect with Velcro and zip ties, authorities   
   said. Three people were injured.   
      
   Bethea heard the sound first. Then she saw smoke.   
      
   “I saw that so I started running to get out of there,” she said.   
   “I didn’t know what was going on.”   
      
   She said others also fled at the sound of an explosion and smoke.   
      
   “We all just ran,” she said. “We all ran up the steps, and   
   someone said, ‘What the hell was that?’”   
      
   Police arrived quickly, she said.   
      
   “Not even two minutes passed and all the police rushed into the   
   Port Authority,” she said.   
      
   After calling her family and her best friend, Bethea heard the   
   news that the explosion and smoke were from a detonated device.   
      
   Realizing she survived what may have been an attempted bombing,   
   Bethea decided to head back home.   
      
   “It shakes you up,” she said. “If I didn’t believe in God, I   
   believe in God today,”   
      
   http://abcnews.go.com/US/witness-explosion-major-nyc-transit-hub-   
   god-today/story?id=51717844   
      
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