BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhuanet) -- New York City’s Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has confirmed that the two men accused of carrying out last week’s bombing of the Boston Marathon, planned a second bomb attack on New York’s Times Square.

According to law enforcement and national security sources, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hijacked a car and its driver in Boston last Thursday night. They say their intent was to drive to New York with seven bombs and detonate them. But their plan fell apart when they became embroiled in a shootout with police.

The information is said to have come from surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has been speaking to investigators in a Boston hospital. He is recovering from gunshot wounds in Beth Deaconess Medical Center, where he was formally charged with crimes that could carry the death penalty, on Monday.

(Source: CNTV.cn)