boston bombings
 

There have been explosions at the finishing line of the boston marathon.

I hate people sometimes and am also confused by them

Very scary, particularly given how busy it was. And with the London one on Sunday.

Thoughts with those who died.

And at the JFK library!

3 explosions so far with other devices being found and taken care of by the bomb teams.

I think it was two plus one controlled explosion by police?

It may have been, my news source isn't clear if it was controlled or not.

There might be more to come since there seems to be a coordination taking place. The explosions were bad but small as terror explosions go.

They are saying the third one was in addition to the controlled explosion. Having lived through 9-11 up close most of what we will hear over the next hours will - aside form the basics - be false.

I suspect it will be days at least before we will know the full story,

So sick hitting people like this, I dont understand the mentality at all.

Boston police are advising people to stay away from big crowd. Being in New York thats probably good advice as well since Boston and NYC are joined at the hip. Indeed planes on 9-11 hit came out of Boston.

'Time reporter Andrew Katz reports via Twitter that "another device" has been discovered in front of the luxurious Mandarin Hotel in Boston. The information comes from a police scanner.'

I can confirm that. I'm listening online to the boston police scanner and a package was reported at the mandarin hotel

NYtimes seems to say, the initial two, plus two controlled, plus one that just went off they were aware of (five).

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/us...-marathon.html

Now the JFK "explosion" is just a "fire" and not related. This is how it always goes. Whoever said "In war the first 3 reports are wrong" knew what they were talking about

:(

What terrible news.

I'm worried that something similar will happen at the London marathon on Sunday.

Pays to be careful but these explosions are being called the likely result of a small local effort. This wasn't like 9-11, Madrid or 7/7. I wouldn't worry too much.

To be honest, it probably looked like a perfect time to terrorists. Everyone's focusing on North Korea and putting every ounce of security on making sure no nuclear bombs hit the country that it's probably quite easy to ignore anything else that might already be there.

Plus, any kind of attack would probably look like it was from North Korea and it'd be a hell of a lot easier to get away with. But now security's being upped, it would be stupid to try anything now. Although saying that, terrorists aren't one for clever ideas.

I think London more needs to worry about the Thatcher funeral and subsequent riots.

I hope everyone is ok and staying safe. Just another reminder to, as always with these situations, check your news is from a reliable source, not just rumors. If there are further explosions it will be on the TV and if you need to evacuate you will be told to do so by officials. I'm jsut saying because I've seen a lot of people panicking and telling people to leave there homes when that is probably not a smart thing to do.

Yikes forgot about that. Security people are in for a long week over there