Times Square case: Expert says ‘mass casualties’ only milliseconds away
By ANITuesday, May 4, 2010
NEW YORK - An explosives expert has said that the car bomb planted in New York’s Times Square came within a “millisecond” of causing “mass casualties”.
Kevin Barry, a retired NYPD bomb squad supervisor and the head of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, said: “Several hundred” could have been killed or maimed by a fireball exploding from the Nissan Pathfinder found loaded down with firecrackers, fertilizer, gasoline, propane and alarm clocks.”
The New York Daily News further quoted Barry, as saying that the propane-fueled flames wouldn’t have brought down any buildings and would have lasted only a few seconds.
He,however, said that the 30-foot high flames would have had adevastating impact on the city’s population, causing horrific lung damage, fried hair and faces of anyone within a 50-yard radius. (ANI)
