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Pressure cookers bought at Macy's and mortars from same firm



One of the Boston Marathon terrorists bought three pounds of explosive powder from the same fireworks company that sold firecrackers to the Times square bomber, it emerged today.


Tamerlan Tsarnaev asked for the 'biggest and loudest' pyrotechnics on offer at Phantom Fireworks in New Hampshire two months before his terror attack that killed three and injured more than 280.

It is believed the powder may have been packed into one of two pressure cookers, which today were revealed to have been bought from a Macy's store.


He and his younger brother Dzhokar allegedly detonated the two devices near the finishing line of the race last week.







Wanted the 'biggest and loudest': Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left) bought two 'Lock and Load' mortar kits (right) containing a total of three pounds of explosive powder two months before the terror attack






'Barely legal': Tamerlan used a buy one, get one free coupon to get two of the $199.99 mortar kits from the Phantom Fireworks store (above) in New Hampshire, the company has confirmed






'It can't happen twice': Phantom Fireworks also sold the firecrackers used by Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad (left) to make his failed car bomb (right) in New York's Times Square in 2010


On February 6, Tamerlan entered the Phantom Fireworks store and bought a $199.99 'Lock and Load' mortar kit which contained four launch tubes and 24 black-powder shells and used a buy one, get one free coupon to purchase two sets.

They were advertised as 'barely legal'.

As each shell contains 30 grams of powder, this gave him enough explosives to construct one of the two pressure cooker bombs he detonated near the finish line of the marathon last week, experts say.


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In a disturbing twist, Phantom Fireworks also sold the firecrackers used by Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad to make his failed car bomb in 2010.


Shahzad travelled to the company's other store in Matamoras, Pennsylvania, to buy 288 firecrackers for his pressure-cooker bomb that he planted in a Nissan Pathfinder.






Clues: Investigators said at least one of the pressure cookers used was made by Spanish company Fagor like this one (left). The image (right) shows the remains of one of the devices after the explosion in the Boston




Customers: A source said the Tsarnaev brothers bought the pressure cookers from a Macy's store. The one above is the Boston branch, but it has not been revealed which store was used

Bill Weiner, vice-president of Phantom Fireworks in Seabrook, New Hampshire, told the New York Daily News: 'We were just shocked.

'After our Times Square experience, we said "It can’t happen twice.".'

But after searching his sales records last week, he discovered Tsarnaev, 26, had been into the store on February 6 and was assisted by a female store clerk.

'Like 99 per cent of the men who come in, he asked "What's the biggest and loudest thing you have",' Weimer said, adding that it had been a 'totally unremarkable sale.'

He said he contacted the FBI immediately.






Suspects: Tamerlan was killed in a shoot-out with police on Friday after a week-long manhunt, while Dzhokar was captured a few hours later cowering in a boat in a backyard in the Boston suburb of Watertown


It is unclear where the Tamerlan brothers sourced the rest of their explosives, but there are at least five fireworks stores in the same area of New Hampshire, around an hour's drive from Boston.

A U.S. official told CNN that investigators have established that the pressure cookers used in the attacks were purchased at a Macy’s department store, although he did not specify how that was known or which branch was used.


At least one of the pressure cookers was made by the Spanish company Fagor, which sells about 50,000 of the six-litre pots in the United States every year.


Tamerlan was killed in a shoot-out with police on Friday after a week-long manhunt, while Dzhokar was captured a few hours later cowering in a boat in a backyard in the Boston suburb of Watertown.

Dzhokar was taken to hospital in a critical condition and has since been charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death as well as one count of malicious destruction of property by means of an explosive device resulting in death.

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