Now all networks go live during this event. We have word out of Boston, there were a series of explosions that could have been an act of terrorism.
This is a breaking event. We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those who may have died in this event.
The Associated Press and Reuters news wires report that at least a dozen people were injured after a pair of explosions detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, the Boston Globe's Twitter feed reported.
The twin blasts resulted in a lockdown at the marathon, which finished up before the explosions were reported, according to Reuters.
There were no immediate reports of the exact number of casualties. The Globe reported “multiple people” were injured.
An international event such as the Boston Marathon attracts thousands of attendees. This explosion has known fatalities.
Witnesses reportedly heard two booms that sounded like two claps of thunder near the finish line inside the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel.
The explosions occurred just before 3 p.m. Video of the scene showed a number of emergency crews in the area tending to victims and blood on the ground near the finish line.
"I saw two explosions. The first one was beyond the finish line. I heard a loud bang and I saw smoke rising," Boston Herald reporter Chris Cassidy, who was running in the marathon, told the newspaper. "I kept running and I heard behind me a loud bang. It looked like it was in a trash can or something...There are people who have been hit with debris, people with bloody foreheads.”
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