Connecticut: Homemade explosive devices found at Waterbury home after fatal blast


Inside the home where an explosion killed a man earlier this month, police found cardboard tubes, black powder and improvised explosive devices stored in a lunchbox, according to a search warrant application released Tuesday.

Thomas Cianciola, 56, was seriously injured in a blast at a Horseshoe Drive home on Jan. 12 and died later that day at a local hospital. Known as “an avid fireworks person,” according to a former girlfriend, Cianciola was renting the home’s basement, police said.

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Source: The Middletown Press


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