Bombs in Upstate N.Y. Kill Six; Man With Ties to Victims Sought

A series of bombs hidden in toolboxes exploded Tuesday in scattered parts of Upstate New York, killing at least six people and wounding several others. Authorities were hunting for a man who they said had links to all the victims.

The toolboxes containing the bombs were delivered in cardboard boxes, several with the return address of “The Liberty Iron Works Co.” in Erie, Pa., police said.

“We are zeroing in on a person but I cannot divulge whom at this time,” said Thomas Staebell, Erie County sheriff’s chief of patrol. “All the folks injured and killed have some connection with the person we are looking at.”

Authorities released a composite photograph of the man. He was a white male in his 40s, with glasses, a mustache and a weak eye or possibly a glass eye.

At least two people were killed at an armored car company building in Cheektowaga, seven miles east of Buffalo, and two more died at an apartment building in Rochester, 70 miles east of Buffalo, Staebell said.

Bombs also exploded in West Valley, where two people were killed, and Hogansburg, in northeastern New York, police said. Two bombs were defused by authorities, one in Eden, a suburb of Buffalo, and one near the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation.