http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/specials/boston-marathon-explosions
Key Points
- The FBI launched a "potential terrorist inquiry" after two bombs at the Boston Marathon.
- The blasts left three people dead - including an eight-year-old boy - and more than 150 injured.
- At least 17 people were critically wounded, officials say, and the injuries include several amputations.
- President Barack Obama said the attack was "an act of terror" but added authorities do not yet know who carried it out.
- During the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs exploded at 2:49 pm EDT (18:49 UTC), killing 3 people and injuring an estimated 264 others. The bombs exploded about 13 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart, near the finish line on Boylston Street. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took over the investigation, and on April 18, released photographs and surveillance video of two suspects. The suspects were identified later that day as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
- Shortly after the FBI released the images, the suspects allegedly killed an MIT police officer, carjacked an SUV, and initiated an exchange of gunfire with the police in Watertown, Massachusetts. During the firefight, an MBTA police officer was injured but survived, in spite of severe blood loss. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was run over by his brother Dzhokhar, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was injured but escaped. An unprecedented manhunt ensued on April 19, with thousands of law enforcement officers searching a 20-block area of Watertown.
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