RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, April 16, 2013 A3
Bombs kill 3, injure over 140 BOMBINGS AT BOSTON MARATHON BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S. A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism. President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will “feel the full weight of justice.” As many as two unexploded bombs were also found near the end of the 26.2-mile course as part of what appeared to be a well-co-ordinated attack, but they were safely disarmed, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation. The fiery twin blasts took place about 10 seconds and about 100 yards apart, knocking spectators and at least one runner off their feet, shattering windows and sending dense plumes of smoke rising over the street and through the fluttering national flags lining the route. Blood stained the pavement, and huge shards were missing from window panes as high as three stories. “They just started bringing people in with no limbs,” said runner Tim Davey of Richmond, Va. He said he and his wife, Lisa, tried to shield their children’s eyes from the gruesome scene inside a medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners, but “they saw a lot.” “They just kept filling up with more and more casualties,” Lisa Davey said. “Most everybody was conscious. They were very dazed.” As the FBI took charge of the investigation, authorities shed no light on a motive or who may have carried out the bombings, and police said they had no suspects in custody. Officials in Washington said there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Police said three people were killed. An 8-year-old boy was among the dead, according to a person who talked to a friend of the family. Hospitals reported at least 144 people injured, at least 15 of them critically. The victims’ injuries included broken bones, shrapnel wounds and ruptured eardrums. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Alisdair Conn, chief of emergency services, said: “This is something I’ve never seen in my 25 years here ... this amount of carnage in the civilian population. This is what we expect from war.” Some 23,000 runners took part in the race, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious marathons. One of Boston’s biggest annual events, the race winds up near Copley Square, not far from the landmark Prudential Center and the Boston Public Library. It is held on Patriots Day, which commemorates the first battles of the American Revolution, at Concord and Lexington in 1775. Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis asked people to stay indoors or go back to their hotel rooms and avoid crowds as bomb squads methodically checked parcels and bags left along the race route. He said authorities had received “no specific intelligence that anything was going to happen” at the race. The Federal Aviation Administration barred low-flying aircraft within 3.5 miles of the site. “We still don’t know who did this or why,” Obama said at the White House, adding, “Make no mistake: We will get to the bottom of this.” With scant official information to guide them, members of Congress said there was little or no doubt it was an act of terrorism. “We just don’t know whether it’s foreign or domestic,” said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. A few miles away from the finish line and around the same time, a fire broke out at the John F. Kennedy Library. The police commissioner said that it may have been caused by an incen-
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This was Price’s first Boston marathon. “Once we realized what happened, I had immediate concern for those people directly involved,” said Price. “Then for us it was, ‘is something else going to happen, who knows? We just need to get out of here.’” They made it back to their hotel and are returning to Central Alberta tomorrow, as long as flights out of Boston are still running. “It is just really heartbreaking to have such an incredible event, a wonderful experience and have something like this happen it is really devastating,” said Price. An expired passport may have been a blessing in disguise for Red Deer’s Paula Chisholm. Over the weekend Chisholm was disappointed she couldn’t go to her first Boston marathon. “But today it’s a changed attitude,” said Chisholm. She runs on average between four and five hours for marathons. “I probably would have either just having finished or getting close to the finish line,” said Chisholm. Her passport had expired in December and she kept putting off her renewal. On Friday she was asking people if they wanted to take her number. “I’m devastated. I used to live in Boston, I know the city quite well,” said Chisholm. “It is devastating, not only for the people of the city, but for anyone who has ever run the race. “I can’t imagine what anyone running today or standing there watching is going through because it must be devastating again.” Chisholm, who has run in marathons for close to 15 years, is determined to run in the Boston Marathon and wants to try again next year. “My heart goes out to the people of Boston and the marathoners and their families and friends,” said Chisholm. “I’ve been at the finish line at the Boston Marathon, I’ve been on the route watching the runners and you train so hard and so long not only to run the race but to qualify that having it end on such a sour note must be tragic for the runners and their family and friends.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
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People react as an explosion goes off near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday. Two explosions went off at the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday.
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