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3rd July 2016
05:07pm BST

According to The Daily Mail, New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir tweeted:#BREAKING: man suffers severe leg injury in explosion in #CentralPark. Unclear what happened. #anc7ny pic.twitter.com/AiYfka2C5j
— Josh Einiger (@JoshEiniger7) July 3, 2016
"Outside Eli Wiesel's funeral I heard a huge explosion just now. Running into Central Park and found a young man with his left leg blown off."
She later added:
"The young man is safely on his way to hospital. No official word as to what transpired. His friends said he was walking&stepped on something.
"Possible fireworks accident or other cause, no word on cause as this happened moments ago."
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