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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe NY Times is reporting three other unexploded devices, including one in Newton outside Boston
BOSTON Two bombs exploded near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on Monday, leaving two people dead and dozens more wounded.
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Police officials said they did not yet have any suspects in custody. A person briefed on preliminary developments in the investigation said that members of Bostons Joint Terrorist Task Force were at Brigham and Womens Hospital interviewing a wounded man seen running from the scene of the two blasts, near 671 Boylston Street. The person said that police investigators had contacted the local gas and electric company and determined that the explosions were not related to gas or electrical service.
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The authorities also found a device at St. James and Trinity Streets that did not explode, the person said, and two other devices were found, including one in Newton, outside of Boston.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/us/explosions-reported-at-site-of-boston-marathon.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
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Not familiar with Boston metro, is Newton outside the marathon area? Could it be symbolic as in Newtown?
reformist2
(9,841 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)Frankly, the media has been reporting a lot of things that were debunked by the Police Commissioner and the FBI.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Exit 17 on the Pike...and the post above is correct; a lot of the marathon goes through Newton.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Marathon route also: https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/323940598136573952
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)... which is part of Boston. It's a normal part of the marathon route.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Most of it, I think.
Mass
(27,315 posts)They explained that they were treating every object as suspect, and were detonating some, but they had not found anything.
Would it not be great if papers did not report without knowing. I just guess it is too hard, even for the NYTimes.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)even more toward a RWer, since they are typically confused when it comes to actual facts.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Heartbreak hill is here, most years we hang out to watch the runners. This year we didn't.
Very laid back, almost zero security in the past, lots of locals cheering and handing out water. Sounds like the laid-back days will now become a distant memory.
Here's a link: http://belmont.patch.com/articles/boston-marathon-2013-the-view-from-newtons-heartbreak-hill-photos#video-13998580
Fuck. So bad, in so many ways.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)under the grand stand that did not explode.