Update: video
Update: 6:16 pm – JFK Library event may now have just been an electrical fire. Looks like the authorities are slowing down the “immediate” news releases as we get past the first couple / few hours after the initial explosions. If someone wanted max media exposure for the after effects, they got it.
Update 5:42pm: Reporting that 2 confirmed dead, over 100 injuried with 20 or so in critical condition, a lesser number in serious condition – a number of folks (exact not known) of folks with amputated limbs. Three confirmed explosions – two along the Finish line and one out at the JFK Library. I have heard at least two more devices have been ‘taken care of’ by authorities. Just now, WBZ 4 is reporting that Tufts Medical and Mass General ERs were in lock down – developing. At this point, speculation is that this is homegrown terrorism as nothing appeared on the national “chatter”. Confirmed that these were small devices in trash cans – some reports are mentioning steel ball bearings.
Pray for the injured and their families. -Skip
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This is everywhere now, so turn something on and you’ll see it. Bombs were detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon…
One eyewitness report indicated many people were “gravely injured” in the blasts, which were near the medical tents set up to assist runners in the race. Some observed at least a dozen people who were injured, with one person saying some were missing limbs and others suffering lacerations.
Reuters news service is reporting the hotel that serves as the headquarters for the Boston Marathon was locked down after what was being called a security incident near the finish line. Two blasts were heard by reporters in the media center.
