Video Appears to Show New York City Bomb Suspect Buying Fuse at a Fireworks Store

Video Appears to Show New York City Bomb Suspect Buying Fuse at a Fireworks Store
Police direct pedestrians away from Columbus Circle, on July 21, 2016, in New York. Mark Lennihan/AP
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NEW YORK—Newly released surveillance video appears to show a man buying a fuse at a fireworks store days before authorities say he and another man brought homemade bombs to a protest outside the New York City mayor’s residence.

Emir Balat, 18, visited a Phantom Fireworks store near his suburban Philadelphia home on March 2, and he purchased 20 feet (6 meters) of consumer fireworks safety fuse, the company said Wednesday.