BOSTON (AP) a Two bombs exploded in the packed streets nearby the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing two people and injuring over 100 in a frightening scene of shattered glass, bloodstained pavement and severed limbs, authorities said. A elderly U.S. intelligence official said two other weapons were found nearby the end of the 26.2-mile course. President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will "feel the total weight of justice." A White House official as the research was still unfolding speaking on condition of anonymity said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism. Experts shed no light on a motive or who could have completed the assault, and police said they had no suspects in custody. Authorities in Washington said there is no immediate claim of duty. "They only began taking people in without limbs," said runner Tim Davey, of Richmond, Va. He said he and his spouse, Lisa, tried to keep their children's eyes shielded from the horrible picture inside a medical tent that were put up to take care of weary athletes, but "they saw a lot." "They just kept replenishing with more and more casualties," Lisa Davey said. "Most every one was conscious. These were very dazed." The fiery double blasts took place very nearly simultaneously and about 100 meters apart, slamming visitors and at least one runner off their legs, shattering windows and sending dense plumes of smoke rising over the road and through the fluttering national flags lining the course. If the second bomb went off, the visitors' cheers considered screams. Emergency personnel and National Guardsmen assigned to the competition for crowd control started rising over and getting down short-term fences to make the journey to the blast site, as sirens blared. A pool of blood formed, and massive shards were lacking from window panes as three stories as high. Boston police said two different people were killed. Hospitals reported at least 105 wounded, at least 15 of these really. Some 23,000 runners took part in the battle, among the world's oldest and most famous marathons. One of Boston's biggest annual events, the race winds up near Copley Square, not far from the landmark Prudential Center and the Boston Public Library. It's placed on Patriots Day, which celebrates the first struggles of the American Revolution, at Concord and Lexington in 1775. Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis asked people to stay indoors or go back to their rooms in hotels and avoid crowds as blast squads systematically tested parcels and bags left over the race route. He explained researchers did not know precisely where in actuality the bombs were planted or whether they were hidden in mailboxes or garbage cans. He explained authorities had received "no particular intelligence that something would definitely happen" at the competition. Low-flying aircraft was barred by the Federal Aviation Administration from within 3.5 miles of the website. Obama was briefed on the explosions by Homeland Security agent Lisa Monaco. Obama also told Mayor Tom Menino and Gov. Deval Patrick that his administration could offer whatever assistance was needed, the White House said. "We still do not know who did this or why," Obama said, putting, "Make no mistake: We shall get to the bottom of this." A few miles from the conclusion line and across the same time, a broke out at the John F. Kennedy Library. The police commissioner said it might have already been caused by an incendiary device but didn't seem to be linked to the bombings. The initial loud explosion occurred on the north side of Boylston Street, right before the image bridge that marks the conclusion line. The second explosion could possibly be heard a couple of seconds later. They occurred about four hours into the battle and two hours after the men's winner crossed the line. By this time, a lot more than the race had been finished by 17,000 of the runners, but tens and thousands of others were farther back across the course. The four-hour tag is normally a highly packed time nearby the finish line a both because of the slow-but-steady recreational athletes likely to be completing the race and because of all relatives and friends clustered about to cheer them on. Athletes in the medical tent for treatment of dehydration or other race-related problems were forced out to produce room for victims of the bombing. A senior U.S. intelligence official said the 2 other explosive devices found nearby were being dismantled. When he wasn't authorized to discuss the findings publicly the official spoke on condition of anonymity. A woman who was a few feet from the next bomb, Brighid Wall, 35, of Duxbury, stated that when it erupted, athletes and spectators froze, unsure of what to do. Her husband threw their young ones to the bottom, lay on top of them and another male lay on top of them and explained, "Do not get up, do not get up." After a minute or so without another surge, Wall claimed, she and her family headed to a Starbucks and out the trunk door through an alley. Around them, the windows off the bars and restaurants were taken out. She said she found 6 to 8 people bleeding abundantly, including one person who was simply kneeling, dazed, with blood coming down his head. Someone else was on the floor covered in blood and not moving. "My ears are zinging. Their ears are zinging," Wall said. "It was so potent. We were knocked by it to the ground." Competitors and race volunteers were crying as the chaos was fled by them. Regulators went onto the course to hold away the injured while competition stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site. Roupen Bastajian, a state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just completed the race once they put the heat blanket place on him and he heard the blasts. "I started running toward the blast. And there have been people all around the floor," he said. "We started getting tourniquets and started tying legs. Lots of people amputated. ... At least 25 to 30 people have at least one leg missing, or an ankle missing, or two feet missing." At Massachusetts General Hospital, said Alisdair Conn, chief of emergency services, said: "This is some thing I have never seen in my 25 years here... this quantity of carnage in the civilian citizenry. This is what we expect from war." The Boston Marathon recognized the victims of the Newtown, Conn., firing with a special mile marker in Monday's race. Boston Athletic Association leader Joanne Flaminio previously said there was "special significance" to the fact that the battle is 26.2 miles long and 26 people died at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Dumb Connected Media writers Jay Lindsay, David LeBlanc, Bridget Murphy and Meghan Barr in Boston; Julie Speed, Lara Jakes and Eileen Sullivan in Washington; and Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee brought for this report.
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