[Newsbot]

Title: People injured in explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
Category: World
Posted By: DanSC
Date: 2013-04-15 12:25:27

[DanSC]

Look up images at your own risk. It's still very early, but it looks like a suicide bomber.

EDIT: Jumped to conclusions. No confirmation as to what caused the explosion.

[raydan]

Watching on TV... no talks of suicide bomber.

[QBall]

Holy shit! This is just insane. My prayers go out to the injured and their families. I just hope there aren't any more bombs waiting to take out emergency workers.

[DrCaleb]

DanSC DanSC:

It's still very early, but it looks like a suicide bomber.

Well that makes sense, because marathon runners are the biggest problem in the world today. Cowards.

I recall John McCain's words after 9/11 - "May God have mercy on their souls, because we won't."

I hope everyone is OK, except the alleged suicide bomber.

[QBall]

I guess I shouldn't jump to conclusions and assume it was a terrorist attack. I suppose a natural gas explosion hasn't been ruled out so I guess I'll keep watching the news.

[DrCaleb]

^^ ditto.

[QBall]

Video of one of the explosions:

https://vine.co/v/bFdt5uwg6JZ

[commanderkai]

Holy shit. CNN said there were two explosions, not just 1.

[DanSC]

In probably the sickest coincidence imaginable, the AP is reporting that some of the family members of the Newtown victims were sitting in a VIP section near the blasts.

I jumped to conclusions with my first post, but the official Boston Marathon twitter account is revering to the events as bombs.

https://twitter.com/bostonmarathon/stat ... 9922980865

[QBall]

Apparently police found a third unexploded bomb and performed a controlled explosion. I'm guessing we can rule out accidental gas main explosion.

https://twitter.com/BostonDotCom/status ... 7746790402

[Brenda]

DanSC DanSC:

In probably the sickest coincidence imaginable, the AP is reporting that some of the family members of the Newtown victims were sitting in a VIP section near the blasts.

OMFG.

$1:

I jumped to conclusions with my first post, but the official Boston Marathon twitter account is revering to the events as bombs.

https://twitter.com/bostonmarathon/stat ... 9922980865

WTF is wrong with people??

[raydan]

All those barriers they put up are really hindering efforts to get to the injured.

[Brenda]

CNN is telling that police confirmed 2 people dead and 22 wounded

[commanderkai]

Fox News is saying 2 dead, 30 injured in their live stream.