Its so freaking sad this. I hope there is no death people. :( If there are, RIP. :(
On NU.nl (a dutch news website):
Bij de finish van de marathon van Boston hebben zich maandagmiddag lokale tijd twee explosies voorgedaan. Daarbij zijn zeker drie doden gevallen, waaronder een achtjarige jongen. De FBI spreekt van een terroristische aanslag.
Translating to English:
At the finish of the Boston Marathon have two explosions occurred Monday afternoon local time (GMT +2). Here are at least three people dead, including an eight-year-old boy. The FBI speaks of a terrorist attack.
There are also more than 130 injured. From video shows that there were two large explosions at the finish of the marathon. There would have been twelve seconds between the two explosions in the same street.
The Boston Police in a press conference at 03.00AM hours Dutch time confirmed that three people died. CNN reported that an eight year old boy from the dead. The boy was with his mother and sister have been waiting at the finish line on his father participating. The mother and the girl were seriously injured in hospital.
The police wanted the death of eight-year-old boy during the press conference not confirm. In other U.S. media mentions 12 deaths.
Injured
CNN reported 144 wounded, including eight children. 17 wounded are in critical condition. All victims of the scene of the crime away. They are treated in seven different hospitals. There would be ten amputations.
The FBI is leading the investigation. The police stressed at the press conference that no suspects have been arrested. At 6.00 pm Dutch time Associated Press reported that in a suburb of Boston apartment is searched.
The police confirmed that the search of the neighborhood Revere has to do with the investigation into the attack during the marathon.
Explosions
The explosions were approximately two hours after the winners had crossed the finish line in Boylston Street in the southwest of the city center. There are thousands of spectators on tribunes had collected, while thousands of runners crossed the finish line. Seventeen thousand of the 23,000 participants had anticipated when the marathon.
According to eyewitnesses, a number of victims bleeding profusely and with severed limbs removed to tents original for the marathon runners were designed. On this picture the time of the explosions recorded.
More bombs
The bomb squad has a third explosive controlled to ring. Fox News reports that two other bombs were dismantled. A senior employee of a U.S. intelligence speaks of two unexploded bombs near the end of the route.
Wall Street Journal reports on the night of Monday to Tuesday that a total of five other unexploded bombs were found. Wall Street Journal later corrected this with the text: "Authorities doubt that finds bombs".
According to CNN, there is still only talk of speculation regarding unexploded bombs were found. The specialized teams treated any bag or suitcase as potentially explosive.
Library
Besides the two explosives at the finish of the marathon would be another bomb went off at the JFK Library, said the police chief of Boston Ed Davis during the first press conference. Later it turned out that a fire going. Researchers have not established a link between the fire and two bombings.
The airspace above the site of the incident is closed. Even Boston Logan Airport was briefly closed, but has since reopened.
Terrorist activity
The White House brought out temporarily to assume a 'terrorist act'. '' Any incident with multiple explosives, where it seems to go, is clearly a terrorist act and is therefore approached as a terrorist act,'' a spokesman know.
According to the White House, investigations must show whether a terrorist group behind the attack is and whether it is domestic or foreign attackers.
A spokesperson of the Taliban in Pakistan late Associated Press that the organization is not behind the attack. This group was in 2010 after the failed attack with a car bomb in Times Square in New York.