Boston blast suspect held
People hug and cry during a vigil for victims of the blasts. Photo: Afp
US investigators yesterday arrested a suspect in connection with the
Boston marathon bombings that killed three people and wounded 180
others, CNN television reported.
The suspect was identified from surveillance video taken by a department store camera and another camera near the marathon finish line where two bombs sprayed metal fragments into crowds on Monday, CNN and other media reported.
At least one of the video cameras captured the suspect appearing to place one of the pressure cooker bombs, the reports said.
The two blasts went off in a 13-second period about 100 meters apart as stragglers among the 23,000 runners entered in the prestige event were completing the race.
The breakthrough came ahead of a visit to Boston today by President Barack Obama to honor the dead and injured.
With no claim of responsibility made for the attack, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it has launched a “worldwide” hunt for those responsible.
It released photographs of the mangled metal remnants of a pressure cooker believed to have been used for one of the bombs which sprayed nails, ball bearings and metal pellets into the huge crowds.
The lid of one pressure cooker was found on the roof of a hotel near the bombs, the hotel’s owner told AFP.
Shreds of black nylon bags believed to have been used to carry the bombs have also been found.
Doctors at hospitals where the critically injured were taken say ball bearings and nails taken from patients were being used in the investigation.
Similar, easy-to-make devices are used as roadside bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq, but have also been used by domestic extremists in the United States.
The suspect was identified from surveillance video taken by a department store camera and another camera near the marathon finish line where two bombs sprayed metal fragments into crowds on Monday, CNN and other media reported.
At least one of the video cameras captured the suspect appearing to place one of the pressure cooker bombs, the reports said.
The two blasts went off in a 13-second period about 100 meters apart as stragglers among the 23,000 runners entered in the prestige event were completing the race.
The breakthrough came ahead of a visit to Boston today by President Barack Obama to honor the dead and injured.
With no claim of responsibility made for the attack, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it has launched a “worldwide” hunt for those responsible.
It released photographs of the mangled metal remnants of a pressure cooker believed to have been used for one of the bombs which sprayed nails, ball bearings and metal pellets into the huge crowds.
The lid of one pressure cooker was found on the roof of a hotel near the bombs, the hotel’s owner told AFP.
Shreds of black nylon bags believed to have been used to carry the bombs have also been found.
Doctors at hospitals where the critically injured were taken say ball bearings and nails taken from patients were being used in the investigation.
Similar, easy-to-make devices are used as roadside bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq, but have also been used by domestic extremists in the United States.
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Boston police officer stands guard at a memorial site on Tuesday, a few
blocks from where two explosions struck near the finish line of the
Boston Marathon on Monday. Photo: Afp
US authorities have thrown virtually every investigation agency into
the hunt with more than 1,000 officers working in Boston alone, said
Rick DesLauriers, head of the FBI’s Boston office.
Obama has condemned the attack as “an act of terror” and vowed that the attackers “will feel the full weight of justice.”
About 1,000 people attended a candlelight vigil in a park near the boy’s home on Tuesday night and hundreds went to other events in Boston.
Hundreds of students attended a memorial service for the woman at Boston University on Tuesday night. Thousands of tributes were posted online on Chinese websites.
Obama has condemned the attack as “an act of terror” and vowed that the attackers “will feel the full weight of justice.”
About 1,000 people attended a candlelight vigil in a park near the boy’s home on Tuesday night and hundreds went to other events in Boston.
Hundreds of students attended a memorial service for the woman at Boston University on Tuesday night. Thousands of tributes were posted online on Chinese websites.
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