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Explosion at Boston Marathon (Take care with NSFW photos and videos!)
So It Goes
We keep moving...Registered User regular
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Original OP as the event happened:
On April 15, 2013 two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Hundreds were injured and three people died. Many people suffered serious injuries and lost limbs.
The FBI later identified two suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnev, brothers from Chechnya who have been living in the US. The FBI put out pictures and video of them carrying backpacks near the finish line starting April 18.
in the early morning hours of April 19, 2013, a police officer at MIT was shot and killed. The suspects left the area and were pursued by police to Watertown, MA.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/18/mit-police-officer-hit-gunfire-cambridge-police-dispatcher-says/4UeCClOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/story.html
That article has a good summary. In short, the suspects were in a gun fight/pursuit with officers, and threw explosives at them. Several officers were hurt and a transit officer was shot but is in stable condition. Tamerlan Tsarnaev (black hat in FBI photos) was injured during the fight, and later pronounced dead at the hospital. He reportedly had an explosive trigger on his person. Dzhokhar (white hat) is still at large and a massive manhunt is underway in Boston for him now.
For more info your best bet right now is probably http://www.bostonglobe.com/ and listening to police scanner links that are posted in the thread.
Just happened, talk about it here.
Finish line cam:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013-boston-marathon-finish-line/
Live looks on CNN and MSNBC right now, no word on the cause.
Several people appear to be hurt, being treated by EMS at the scene now.
UPDATES:
http://google.org/personfinder/2013-boston-explosions/ to help find people you are worried about
617 635 4500
For people trying to locate people
1 800 494 TIPS
If you have info about the event
If you are able to donate blood, that would be very helpful.
Or donate money to the Red Cross. http://www.redcross.org/support/donating-fundraising/donations
Finish line cam:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013-boston-marathon-finish-line/
Live looks on CNN and MSNBC right now, no word on the cause.
Several people appear to be hurt, being treated by EMS at the scene now.
UPDATES:
http://google.org/personfinder/2013-boston-explosions/ to help find people you are worried about
617 635 4500
For people trying to locate people
1 800 494 TIPS
If you have info about the event
If you are able to donate blood, that would be very helpful.
Or donate money to the Red Cross. http://www.redcross.org/support/donating-fundraising/donations
On April 15, 2013 two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Hundreds were injured and three people died. Many people suffered serious injuries and lost limbs.
The FBI later identified two suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnev, brothers from Chechnya who have been living in the US. The FBI put out pictures and video of them carrying backpacks near the finish line starting April 18.
in the early morning hours of April 19, 2013, a police officer at MIT was shot and killed. The suspects left the area and were pursued by police to Watertown, MA.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/18/mit-police-officer-hit-gunfire-cambridge-police-dispatcher-says/4UeCClOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/story.html
That article has a good summary. In short, the suspects were in a gun fight/pursuit with officers, and threw explosives at them. Several officers were hurt and a transit officer was shot but is in stable condition. Tamerlan Tsarnaev (black hat in FBI photos) was injured during the fight, and later pronounced dead at the hospital. He reportedly had an explosive trigger on his person. Dzhokhar (white hat) is still at large and a massive manhunt is underway in Boston for him now.
For more info your best bet right now is probably http://www.bostonglobe.com/ and listening to police scanner links that are posted in the thread.
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Based on that, two explosions.
Closeup (warning: blood)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH6fwFvCUAA-PWb.jpg:large
More devices have been found as well.
Tax day, in Boston - a mile or two from the harbor where the Tea Party went down. I find it hard to believe that's a coincidence, and this will be anything but homegrown nutters.
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What makes you say that?
Explosions from a distance.
The finish line (grisly, NSFW, NSF-people-who-don't-like-wounds).
do you have a source that more devices have been found?
So we have confirmed reports that there are bombs and this was deliberate?
Those seem like obvious links so far.
Sending out good vibes.
A desire to baselessly speculate in the vacuum of information.
third floating about:
pretty awful
Seriously though I hope they catch whomever did this quick as you can do a lot of damage, to a lot of people, and be nowhere near the scene with a functional understanding of homemade explosives. Every suspicious box, package, container, anything in the city just became a nightmare for their bombsquad.
Please include sources if you have new info, where did you hear it? or see it?
Too soon.
Steam
Please don't be a dick.
www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5134986
Letsrun forum. It's lagged now so I can't bring it back up, but it said there were reports of additional devices. After I posted it seems like someone might have been confused over a threat vs. the explosives though.
Yeah, it's only April 15th and Boston. Complete vacuum.
Really? Fucking really?
That's what you say right after, 'Take my wife!'
Not after people get injured or killed in a goddamn explosion.
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Which was unpleasant.
Steam
watching the MSNBC video they've shown a few times, the explosions were on either side of the finish line and happened seconds apart.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I wouldn't trust anything yet. There's local video/live coverage and there could definitely be dead but we're not talking very large numbers
There are also literally dozens of ambulances and hundreds of medical personnel there already for the marathon and half the cops in the city
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
That's my main concern as well.
We can assign blame and cause later.
Power is still on in back bay. I don't think its a transformer.
unfortunately they aren't
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MSNBC has a report that persons on the subway underground heard the explosions.
e: oh it's no longer a live feed, it's three minutes of video