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Explosions at the Boston Marathon

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-the-news dept.

Reports are coming in that the headquarters at the Boston Marathon have been locked down after two explosions were reported near the finish line. According to reports "dozens of people have been seriously injured." CNN has live coverage. Google has a Person Finder up for Boston.
Update: The Boston Police Dept. says 2 people have died and 23 are injured. News conference scheduled for 4:30 ET.

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  1. Live feed of the news by RyLaN · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like bostonglobe.com is down, here's a live CBS feed that's still working http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/04/explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line/

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    At least the war on the environment is going well
  2. Re:Well, crap by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Informative

    BTW, I really am sorry for the victims, fwiw.

  3. Patriot's Day by Westwood0720 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots'_Day

    For those that are not from the area.

    We have reports of people with missing limbs. happened near the Boston Public Library. Scary shit.

  4. Video of the actual explosion by iONiUM · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a video of the actual explosion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUsu-yoIzq8.

    Doesn't look good..

    1. Re:Video of the actual explosion by iONiUM · · Score: 5, Informative

      Looks like another one here that is a little better: http://vine.co/v/bFdt5uwg6JZ.

  5. Re:tell me again by sribe · · Score: 5, Informative

    What does this have to do with news for nerds?

    Why nothing at all that's what.

    But you have to be a fucking idiot to have read /. and never noticed that it's more than news for nerds. And it's right in the slogan: "news for nerds, stuff that matters".