Chelsea bombing suspect is identified and becomes subject of manhunt

A 28-year-old man is being sought in connection with the bomb blast that injured 29 people in Chelsea on Saturday night, officials said.

Ahmad Khan Rahami’s name was released as the investigation into the bomb explosions in New York and New Jersey have led authorities to signs that a terror cell might be located in the two states, a law enforcement source told The Post.

The alarming possibility of a terror cell emerged as the FBI launched a raid in Elizabeth, New Jersey, early Monday – hours after authorities discovered five suspicious devices, one of which blew up near a train station.

It was not immediately clear if the feds — which included members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — found any possible suspects during the raid at Linden and Elmora streets.

Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage said the raid at an apartment, where a man lives with his son, was related to the incident in Chelsea on Saturday, according to reports.

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo now believes there may be a “foreign connection” with the explosion Saturday night in Chelsea.

“I suspect there may be a foreign connection,” Cuomo told CBS News. “That’s what we are hearing today, as the investigation goes on.”

Cuomo hedged, however, suggesting that it is still unknown where the investigation will end up.

“But, again, I was the former attorney general in New York and I did many — I participated in many of these investigations. They take different twists and turns. So you want to be careful what you say early on because you want to protect the information, but that would be my guess,” he said.

Cuomo refused to say whether he believed ISIS was directly behind this attack –and the possibly related attacks in New Jersey.

The suspicious devices in New Jersey were found in a backpack near a train station in Elizabeth late Sunday. One detonated when a bomb squad robot tried to disarm it.

The discovery came a day after a blast in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan at West 23rd Street injured 29 people and an unexploded pressure-cooker device was found nearby on 27th Street.

Bollwage said two men called police and reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of a package they found in a trash can about 8:30 p.m.

People reported hearing a loud explosion and smelling gunpowder early Monday. Bollwage earlier said a bomb squad robot indicated that the package could’ve been a live bomb. There was no report of injuries.

Officials said it didn’t appear that those two incidents were connected, though they weren’t ruling anything out.

Meanwhile, the FBI agents arrested five men of Muslim descent who may be connected to the Chelsea blast after stopping their car in Brooklyn, a source said.

The men were heading over the Verrazano Bridge from Staten Island when they were stopped Sunday night.

Sources said the FBI suspected the men may have had a role in the bombing and were questioning them at the FBI headquarters in Manhattan.

It is believed the men, who live in New Jersey, were heading to the airport when they were busted.

In other developments, service has resumed hours after the explosion in Elizabeth.

The Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines began running again at 5:30 a.m. Monday, New Jersey Transit said.

Customers should “plan for delays,” NJ Transit said, adding that tickets will be cross-honored on PATH, ferries, light rail and private buses. NJ Transit train tickets are accepted on NJ Transit buses.

This article was first published in the New York Post.