Again Marathoners Two Lives Turned Around
A wounded spectator sits dazed amongst the bloodshed virtually the terminate line yesterday later twin terrorist explosions hit the Boston Marathon. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Glob)
As dozens of unsuspecting marathoners printing on toward the finish line, a second smash erupts. (Dan Lampariello/Barcroft Media)
Wearing a foil to continue warm, a marathoner breaks downwards in tears after yesterday's madness near Copley Foursquare. (AP)
A first responder in protective accommodate investigates the exact spot on Boylston Street where i of the 2 devices detonated. (AP)
GRIM NEWS: President Obama gets an update yesterday every bit he's joined by Lisa Monaco — his assistant for homeland security and terrorism — and Chjef of Staff Denis McDonough at the Oval Office. (AFP/Getty Images)
Marathon runner John Ounao (eye) weeps as his fear gives way to relief yesterday after he'due south reunited with friends amid the commotion. (AFP/Getty Images)
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Terrorists detonated two shrapnel-packed bombs at the Boston Marathon yesterday, leaving bodies and shredded limbs littering the finish line.
Many victims suffered amputated legs and were pierced with ball bearings and nails — indicating the bombs had been designed to inflict maximum human harm.
The official death toll was 3, merely a constabulary-enforcement source told The Post it could be as high equally 12.
I witness told The New York Times there appeared to be 10 to 12 fatalities, including "women, children, finishers." The wounds appeared to be "lower torso — the blazon of stuff you see from someone exploding out," he said.
The dead included an 8-year-old male child, Martin Richard, whose mom and sis were hurt every bit they waited for his dad to finish running. Richard'due south father, Bill, is a community leader in Dorchester.
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More than than 140 injured people were existence treated at eight hospitals, with at to the lowest degree 17 in disquisitional status.
A land trooper at the scene reported more than than 25 people with at least one leg missing.
A woman visiting her brother at Brigham Woman's Hospital in Boston said doctors removed 37 nails that were lodged in the human being'due south legs from the blast.
A surgeon at Massachusetts Full general Hospital said the about common serious injury was to the os and tissue of the leg. "Manifestly, it's upsetting to run across people coming in so quickly," Dr. Peter Fagenholz said.
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Among the developments in the hours subsequently the attack:
* Federal sources said a 20-year-old Saudi Arabian national, who was injured by shrapnel, was existence questioned by authorities and under heavy baby-sit at a Boston hospital. An apartment in Revere, Mass. — where sources say the doubtable lives — was raided by feds yesterday.
* "Make no mistake, nosotros volition get to the lesser of this," President Obama said. "Any responsible individual, whatsoever responsible groups will feel the total weight of justice." Later, a White House official said the incident was being treated as an act of terrorism.
* The attacks sent the Dow Jones industrial average plunging 265 points, the worst day on Wall Street in 5 months.
The two bombs exploded xiii seconds apart and left hundreds of people in tears, some searching for loved ones and trying to condolement the dying.
Boston police initially said a third incident — a fire or explosion — occurred at the JFK Presidential Library at effectually 4:xxx p.m., about an hour and a half after and 4 miles away from the marathon blasts. Only they afterward indicated that incident was unrelated to the attack.
Police plant at least two unexploded bombs most the finish line, and they detonated one safely.
It was reported that the two bombs had been left in trash cans. Such receptacles are normally removed from parade routes and other events as an anti-terror precaution, and constabulary-enforcement sources told The Post it wasn't clear whether the report indicated a security failing — or if, perhaps, the terrorists had prepare their own cans.
Investigators were looking into whether a bombardment and timers were used on the explosive devices.
Witnesses described a horrific scene of a claret-spattered Boylston Street and dozens of rescue workers rushing injured runners and spectators from the scene.
Boston resident Tony Wrubio was watching from the sidelines when one blast knocked him and his friend to the ground.
"We saw debris flying everywhere. It was simply a mad rush of people," Wrubio told The Mail service. "I saw people with limbs missing. People merely lying in the street, missing limbs.
"There was a child separated from his mom and I picked upwards the kid, threw him over my shoulder, and brought him out and gave him to his mom."
Runner Tim Hare was just a quarter-mile from the end line when the first boom erupted. He continued to run merely stopped later the second went off x feet to his left.
"I saw a trash can go up, I saw fire, I saw smoke. I saw what looked like someone hitting the ground," he said. "I merely turned effectually and ran for my life."
Monica Pearson, who was being treated in the medical tent subsequently finishing the race but before the blasts, saw mangled spectators being rushed in.
"It was a life-irresolute experience to meet a man come in with no legs," she said.
Runners walked around with nowhere to go. All nearby hotels were evacuated, and no 1 was allowed into the Lenox Hotel, the Copley Square Hotel, the Westin, the Copley Fairmont or the Standard mandarin.
Marathoners were shuttled to Boston Common to look for relatives.
Within hours, Google had ready up a folio that allowed viewers to seek information about victims or to offering information.
As the race concluded in chaos, some of the 26,000 runners were stopped nearly a mile from the end line.
Some continued, inverse direction to nearby Massachusetts Full general Hospital to donate blood.
Medics set up up an emergency morgue at the finish line.
Many of the injured were taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where Dean Smith, 52, was treated for shrapnel wounds.
"I was in that location to sentry my son run," Smith said. "The get-go flop went off and I said, 'That'southward a bomb,' and then, of a sudden, boom! Another one went off.
"My eardrums flare-up. My wife said I flew five feet."
The attack came on Patriots Day, a popular holiday in Boston. Information technology was 4 days before the anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma Urban center bombing, which killed 168.
Organizers of the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, set for Friday, said they planned to become alee with the race.
In New York City, police deployed anti-terror forces to major landmarks, transportation hubs and other potential targets.
Gov. Cuomo has directed state agencies to be on heightened alert and said the New York National Guard already had 3 vehicles and half dozen soldiers in Boston.
Ane constabulary-enforcement source suggested New York might have been the preferred target — and Boston was the alternative.
"Our marathon was canceled in Nov [past Hurricane Sandy]. This could have been a 2nd option," the source said. "
Another source said federal authorities view the bombing as "a more successful version" of the 2010 Times Square attack in which a car bomb failed to detonate.
Obama was cautious in his remarks from the White Business firm three hours after the attack, saying investigators "however do non know who did this or why."
Adding to the heartbreak, the last mile of the marathon was defended to the victims of the Newtown school massacre, and some of their relatives were seated in a VIP section near the end line.
Additional reporting by Fred Milgrim in Boston and Pedro Oliveira Jr., Josh Margolin, Jamie Schram and Kirstan Conley in NY
Source: https://nypost.com/2013/04/16/twin-bombing-rocks-boston/