Chinese driver carjacked by Boston bombing suspects tells of his ordeal

I don't feel like a hero', says entrepreneur who drove Tsarnaev brothers around for 90 minutes before escaping to raise the alarm

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is apprehended by police. Photo: AP

Published: 3:03pm, 26 Apr 2013Updated: 1:56am, 27 Apr 2013

A Chinese entrepreneur has told an American newspaper how Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev stopped his car on the night of the deadly shoot-out with police, uttering the words 'Don't be stupid', before carjacking the vehicle.

The man, who did not want his surname known and was identified only as Danny, recounted to the dramatic events that unfolded as his new Mercedes was parked in a residential street while he answered a text message.

In New York, city officials said Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar planned to detonate more explosives in Times Square as they were being hunted by police.

New York police chief Ray Kelly said on Thursday that the pair intended to use a pressure-cooker bomb - similar to the two that erupted at the marathon - as well as five pipe bombs and improvised grenades they still had on hand as they drove around in the hijacked Mercedes.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is charged with carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260, and he could get the death penalty. He has been moved from a Boston hospital to a federal medical centre about 65 kilometres west of the city, the US Marshals Service said yesterday.

According to the , Danny - originally from a province in central China, and a student of an American university between 2009 and 2012 - said a man rapped on his window as he sat in his car on April 18 at 11pm. When he wound down the window, the man reached in and unlocked the door. He climbed in, armed with a handgun.