Explosion at Boston Marathon

[orangeman]

just watched footage of explosion. Crazy timing if it was a gas explosion.

That was my first reaction.

[orangeman]

Crazy.


At least two people are dead and dozens injured -- including up to 10 with amputated limbs -- after two explosions rocked the area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Police Department. 

The simultaneous explosions, and reports of at least one other unexploded device found near the scene - raised suspicions that the explosions, just before 3 p.m., could be terrorist attacks. Competitors and race organizers were crying as they fled the bloody chaos, while some witnesses reported seeing victims with lost limbs.

"Somebody's leg flew by my head," a spectator, who gave his name as John Ross, told the Boston Herald. "I gave my belt to stop the blood."

Witnesses heard booms that sounded like two claps of thunder near the finish line inside the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel, according to multiple local reports.

Video of the scene showed a number of emergency crews in the area tending to victims and blood on the ground near the finish line.

"I saw two explosions. The first one was beyond the finish line. I heard a loud bang and I saw smoke rising," Boston Herald reporter Chris Cassidy, who was running in the marathon, told the newspaper. "I kept running and I heard behind me a loud bang. It looked like it was in a trash can or something...There are people who have been hit with debris, people with bloody foreheads."

"There are a lot of people down," said one man, whose bib No. 17528 identified him as Frank Deruyter of North Carolina. He was not injured, but marathon workers were carrying one woman, who did not appear to be a runner, to the medical area as blood gushed from her leg. A Boston police officer was wheeled from the course with a leg injury that was bleeding.

About three hours after the winners crossed the line, there was a loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish line. Another thunderous explosion could be heard a few seconds later.

Runner Laura McLean of Toronto said she heard two explosions outside the medical tent.

"There are people who are really, really bloody," McLean said. "They were pulling them into the medical tent."

Cherie Falgoust was waiting for her husband, who was running the race.  "I was expecting my husband any minute," she said. "I don't know what this building is ... it just blew. Just a big bomb, a loud boom, and then glass everywhere. Something hit my head. I don't know what it was. I just ducked."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near-finish-line-boston-marathon-spokesman-says/#ixzz2QZ5qrGb7

[Syferus]

Terrible stuff. Rarely you can call something evil without a doubt but if this is what it appears to be there is no other word for it.

[ballinaman]

Police confirm 1st bomb was homemade. Some right wing nut job. Patriots day in the states

[Bingo]

Police confirm 1st bomb was homemade. Some right wing nut job. Patriots day in the states

Some things just never make sense.

A lot of the runners from boards.ie have been accounted so but still a few to check in. The race had 108 Irish runners entered but will be hundreds more.

[Syferus]

Police confirm 1st bomb was homemade. Some right wing nut job. Patriots day in the states

Ayyyyyye Rah getting name-checked on Fox. The news is like a greatest hits package when something hits - Waco, OKC bombing already got trotted out.

Being homemade doesn't mean it was made by a right wing fool, surely? Even a 'jihadist' would have to build the bombs themselves.

[Milltown Row2]

Police confirm 1st bomb was homemade. Some right wing nut job. Patriots day in the states

Some things just never make sense.

A lot of the runners from boards.ie have been accounted so but still a few to check in. The race had 108 Irish runners entered but will be hundreds more.

It went off around the 4 hour mark, 4.09 I think

[rodney trotter]

Few pics from it http://t.co/9SQnVmKUD9

[glens abu]

White House sealed off now

[Minder]

Some fella Alex Jones has pinned it on the FBI, trying to frame right wingers 

[5 Sams]

Sky reporting a 3rd bomb after exploding.

[dec]

Some fella Alex Jones has pinned it on the FBI, trying to frame right wingers 

Alex Jones is the king of conspiracy nuts.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Terrible scenes. Strange event to target?

[Ball DeBeaver]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/photos-of-the-boston-marathon-bombing/100495/

Some distressing photos.

Madness.

[rodney trotter]

The latest on Sky news http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=sky+news&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2F&ei=QWZsUfexHYiu7AaDoYHgAw&usg=AFQjCNESXeI5j7fA5wV1J3CFmxSf_vqRyQ