Man found guilty of planting bombs that injured 30 people in New York City

Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 29, convicted of planting two pressure-cooker bombs in the Chelsea neighborhood in the summer of 2016

A New Jersey man was convicted on Monday of planting two pressure-cooker bombs on New York City streets, including one that injured 30 people with a rain of shrapnel when it detonated in a bustling neighborhood on a weekend night last summer.

The verdict in Manhattan came after the two-week trial of 29-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahimi, an Afghanistan-born man living in Elizabeth, 15 miles from Manhattan. The charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a public place, carry a maximum punishment of life in prison.

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