Today at 2:50 pm two bombs went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. At the time of this writing, 2 people have been killed and 70+ have been injured. Another bomb has gone off at the JFK library and two other unexploded bombs have been found.
The police have a person of interest in the hospital suffering from burns.
Interestingly, today is Israel independence day. Israel celebrates independence on 5 Iyar. When the bombs in Boston went off it was 10:00 pm on 5 Iyar which started at sundown in Israel. Coincidence?
From Fox News:
At least two people are dead and 73 injured – including up to 10 with
amputated limbs – after two bombs tore through the finish line of the
Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Police Department.
Authorities were guarding a person of interest at a local hospital,
according to a New York Post report confirmed by Fox News. The person,
who sources said was 20 years old, had severe burns, but authorities had
not determined whether the person was a victim or a perpetrator. Boston
Police Commissioner Edward Davis said during a press conference that no
suspect is in custody.
The simultaneous explosions just before 3 p.m. and reports of two
other unexploded devices found near the scene raised suspicions of a
terrorist attack. Intelligence officials told The Associated Press two
unexploded devices were being dismantled. Competitors and race
organizers were crying as they fled the bloody chaos, while some
witnesses reported seeing victims with lost limbs.
"Somebody's leg flew by my head," a spectator, who gave his name as
John Ross, told the Boston Herald. “I gave my belt to stop the blood.”
The first two explosions occurred at 2:50 p.m. – nearly five hours
after the marathon began – about 50 to 100 yards apart, according to
Davis. A third explosion occurred near the John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library and Museum in the Columbia Point section of Dorchester, several
miles southeast of the marathon's finish line, at around 4:15
p.m. Police could not say if it was related to the earlier explosions.
