Is this the second Boston Marathon bomb? Photo shows bag where blast detonated
Is this the second Boston Marathon bomb? Photo shows bag where blast detonated
A bag can be seen next to a mail box against a barricade as onlookers watch the marathon runners pass by
Scene: Bag left near mail box is highlighted
7News
These two pictures being studied by the FBI could hold vital clues to the Boston Marathon bombing.
In the first photo, a bag can be seen next to a mail box against a barricade as onlookers watch the marathon runners pass by.
A second picture, taken an hour later on Boylston Street outside the
Forum Bar, shows victims of the blast lying where the bag had been.
The photo has been purposefully blurred by US TV channel 7News to mask out bodies of the dead and the maimed.
FBI forensic experts were last night studying also nylon fibres discovered at the scene of one of the blasts. Horror: Maimed victims near where the bag had been
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The bombs were lethal devices consisting of metal, nails and ball bearings crammed into pressure cookers, it emerged yesterday.
Both bombs – packed with the deadly shards – were carefully placed in
bags and hidden near the finishing line, according to US sources.
They had been deliberately designed to cause explosions that would injure, maim and kill innocent bystanders.
Law enforcement officials do not yet know what was used to detonate the six-litre pressure cooker bombs.
The devices have been used in India, Nepal, Pakistan as well as
Afghanistan, according to an FBI and Homeland Security intelligence
report from 2010.
One of the three devices used in the May 2010 New York Times Square attempted bombing was also a pressure cooker.
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The two explosions in Boston came on the Patriots’ Day holiday, 12 seconds apart.
The first, just metres from the finish line, rocked the final stretch of the marathon route four hours into the race on Monday.
There then followed a second explosion about 100 metres back on the same street.
President Obama yesterday admitted the US authorities still had no idea who was behind the attacks.
However, officials disclosed that similar bombs had been used in Afghanistan.
Of those rushed to hospital, 17 were last night still in a critical condition.
Dr David Mooney, Director of the trauma centre at Boston Children’s
Hospital, said: “One of the sickest things for me was seeing nails
sticking out of a little girl’s body.”
Dr Stephen Epstein at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said he saw an X-ray of one victim’s leg.
He added: “There appeared to be small, uniform, round objects throughout it – similar to ball- bearings.”
Dr George Velhamos, of Massachusetts General, also described the
fragments, adding: “Some were pellets, others were like nails without
heads which tore into the skin.”
Speaking of those who needed amputations above the knee, he said: “We
had to do this because their legs were completely destroyed.
"We just completed the ugly job that the bomb did, their legs were mangled.”
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