Boston Marathon bombs: latest
Lid of pressure cooker is found on a roof near the Boston marathon bomb site, as FBI sources claim "substantial progress" has been made in the case and Barack Obama is sent letter that tested positive for ricin.
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Investigators survey the site of the bomb blast Photo: Reuters
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Remains of an explosive device Photo: Reuters
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Boston marathon bombings: clockwise from top left - Krystle Campbell, Martin Richard and family, the second explosion, the scene on Monday afternoon
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Krystle Campbell, Boston bomb victim
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Mrs Gross suffered a broken leg and ankle Photo: Boston Globe via Getty Images
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The remains of a pressure cooker that the FBI says was part of one of the bombs that exploded during the Boston Marathon
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Injured people lie on the pavement after a bomb was detonated near the Boston Marathon finish line Photo: AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh
By Raf Sanchez, Washington, and Chris Irvine
7:14PM BST 17 Apr 2013
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• Boston Police: no arrest made in bombing case
• Department store footage 'may have identified suspect'
• FBI source: 'substantial progress' made in Boston investigation
• Third victim a 23-year-old Chinese student
• Series of 'suspicious' letters sent to Obama and Senate
• Investigation and aftermath: April 16 as it happened
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22.40 (16.40) The planned press briefing at 5pm is no longer happening. Not clear if it has been delayed or if it's being cancelled all together.
22.35 (16.35) The US Senate has just voted 54-46 against the bipartisan bill to expand background checks on gun sales, leaving hopes for new gun control measure in America in tatters.
Twitter: The Atlantic Wire - BREAKING: Manchin-Toomey amendment killed in Senate; from the gallery, someone yelled, 'Shame on you!' http://t.co/1gBVqeNcJL
21.22 (16.22) The court house in Boston is officially now open again following bomb threat. Meanwhile the US senate has begun voting on proposals to expand criminal background checks during gun sales. Here's our story from earlier:
Hopes for significant new gun control laws in America were fading today as senators admitted that even a bipartisan compromise to modestly expand criminal background checks is likely heading for defeat.
Republicans in the US Senate are this afternoon expected to thwart proposals to ban assault weapons and limit high capacity magazines like those used at the Newtown massacre.
The Democrat bills have long been expected to fail but gun control advocates had placed their hopes on a compromise proposal - drafted by members of both parties and supported by the White House - which would for the first time extend background checks to those buying firearms online or at gun shows.
The proposal is supported by around 90 per cent of the American public but this morning its authors admitted they were likely to fall short of the 60 votes needed to pass it.
"We will not get the votes today," said Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat who drafted the bill with Senator Patrick Toomey, a conservative Republican.
20.55 (15.55) In other news, Michelle Obama will be joining the President in Boston tomorrow. Here she is during a moment of silence for the victims today.
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20.25 (15.25) Judges are being reported to be going back into the court house, seemingly a sign that the bomb scare is over.
20.20 (15.20) There are literally hundreds of reporters at the court house, all there for the false alarm reports that suspect was en route.
20.15 (15.15) Seems the all clear has been given at the hospital:
Twitter: The Boston Globe - RT @globejenpeter: All clear at the Brigham. Man left locked car at valet. Gas cans in back, according to official source. #marathon
Reports that the court evacuation may have been because of a bomb threat being called in but still not clear. Obviously, the majority of bomb threats end up being hoaxes.
20.10 (15.10) There are now reports that the federal court and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where some of the wounded are being treated, are being evacuated.
Twitter: The Boston Globe - BREAKING NEWS: Federal court is being evacuated and a witness says Brigham and Women's Hospital is also being evacuated.
Worth stressing that in this time of heightened tensions there have been a lot of false alarms and we don't know what the cause of any of this is yet.
20.00 (15.00) The FBI has just put out this statement from Boston, ticking off the media:
Contrary to widespread reporting, no arrest has been made in connection with the Boston Marathon attack. Over the past day and a half, there have been a number of press reports based on information from unofficial sources that has been inaccurate. Since these stories often have unintended consequences, we ask the media, particularly at this early stage of the investigation, to exercise caution and attempt to verify information through appropriate official channels before reporting.
19.45 (14.45) The FBI and the US attorney in Boston are now both saying that no arrest has been made.
19.40 (14.40) Boston Police are now saying there has been no arrest:
Twitter: Boston Police Dept. - Despite reports to the contrary there has not been an arrest in the Marathon attack.
19.35 (14.35) We're still expecting the FBI to hold a press conference at 5pm, where hopefully we will get something definitive.
19.24 (14.25) The picture remains very confused:
Twitter: NECN - #BREAKING: LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TELL NECN THERE HAS NOT BEEN AN ARREST IN BOSTON BOMBINGS
Twitter: The Boston Globe - Boston Globe source reports suspect being taken to US District Court in South Boston.
19.21 (14.21) It has to be stressed that there are still conflicting reports about whether an arrest has taken place and no public officials have confirmed it yet. You can follow the Boston Police scanner here but be careful about jumping to any conclusions from it.
19.20 (14.20) CNN is reporting that the footage shows the suspect in the moment that the first bomb goes off. While those around him duck and cover, he apparently begins to immediately run. "It was out of context," their reporter says.
19.14 (14.14) Someone on the police radio has asked "Is the suspect at the courthouse yet?" He was told no. There is a large presence outside the courthouse now.
19.08 (14.08) Speculation now gathering pace that the device was possibly set off by a mobile phone. CBS, citing sources, says the bomber was on the phone when he dropped the second backpack. Mobile phone records led to an identification.
19.07 (14.07) The Associated Press says they have been told the suspect is in custody and expected in federal court.
19.04 (14.04) CBS news is reporting that the FBI said the suspect was wearing a black jacket with a grey hoodie and backwards baseball cap.
Twitter: Bree Sison - FBI said man was in grey hoodie with a backwards baseball cap #wbz #bostonmarathon
Twitter: Steven Bognar - BREAKING: @cbsnews Bob Orr reports surveillance video shows man with black jacket, gray hoodie and baseball cap on backwards on phone wbz#
18.58 (13.58) I should stress that an arrest has not been confirmed 100 per cent. There is information out there suggesting that it has not happened.
Twitter: Stuart Millar - FBI in DC saying same thing @journodave: US Attorney's Office in Boston says no arrest has been made - @PeteWilliamsNBC
18.52 (13.52) This picture, from 7 News, would appear to show the bomb outside Forum before it went off.
18.50 (13.50) The Boston police radio feed online appears to suggest that something is happening at 7pm (2pm EDT). I must stress I don't know if that's definite.
18.49 (13.49) Fran Townsend of CNN says the a law enforcement source says the arrest was made on TWO videos of the suspect.
18.46 (13.46) CNN says that arrest has been made.
18.45 (13.45) The Associated Press is also reporting that an arrest is imminent. A law enforcement officials claims the suspect is to be brought to court.
18.40 (13.40) An arrest may be imminent or may have already taken place, according to ABC's local affiliate.
Twitter: WCVB-TV Boston - #BREAKING: According to @WuWCVB, an arrest in #BostonMarathon bombing is imminent or has already taken place.
18.33 (13.33) The Telegraph's picture desk has cut us a map showing us how near Lord and Taylor and Forum are.
18.30 (13.30) CNN correspondent John King, say authorities have a clear image of a "dark-skinned male" placing a package at one of the sites and then leaving the area before the explosion.
18.24 (13.24) We're trying to piece together where the bomb went off and where Lord and Taylor is. Forum, the bar where the bomb appeared to go off, is less than 200ft from the store.
Forum, the bar where the bomb appeared to go off. Lord & Taylor department store is less than 200ft away.
18.17 (13.17) Law enforcement are expected to make a briefing at 10pm (5pm GMT).
18.14 (13.14) Mayor Thomas Menino reportedly told CNN earlier today that the Lord & Taylor video was "critical" to the investigation.
18.07 (13.07) The video has apparently identified a "clear image" of the suspect.
18.00 (13.00) A law enforcement source has told CNN that Boston officials may have identified the suspect.
The source says that a video from Lord & Taylor department store is believed to have helped. There is no information suggesting that the suspect has been apprehended.
17.50 (12.50) More from the "substantial progress" line from CNN. The Boston law enforcement source told the news organisation: "This is significant."
17.45 (12.45) So what is ricin? Well, according to howstuffworks.com, it is:
Ricin is a toxin that is fatal to humans in extremely small doses...
Ricin can be fatal if it is inhaled, ingested, or injected. While skin or eye contact with ricin can cause pain, it is typically not fatal in that type of exposure.
The initial symptoms of ricin sickness, which may appear anywhere from three to 12 hours from the time of exposure, include coughing, fever and stomach pains.
If ingested, main symptoms within the first hours are stomach ache, gastroenteritis, bloody diarrhea and vomiting. Over the course of the first days after exposure, the victim may experience symptoms of dehydration and low blood pressure.
Ricin inhalation can manifest as lung damage, including pulmonary edema (fluid in and swelling of the lungs).
Other possible symptoms include seizures and problems with the central nervous system.
If the exposure is fatal, the victim most likely will die within five days. If death does not occur in that time, the victim will most likely recover. There is no known antidote for ricin poisoning.
17.33 (12.33) Carney didn't really reveal much there. His entire press conference could more or less be summed up as "Ask the FBI."
17.29 (12.29) Michigan Senator Carl Levin says his regional office also received a suspicious letter, according to AP.
17.25 (12.25) As Carney is speaking, and not really adding anything new, CNN is flashing that a law enforcement source has told them there has been "substantial progress" in Boston.
17.21 (12.21) Carney reiterates that the FBI has not linked the suspicious letters to the Boston attack. He adds that Michelle Obama will join her husband in Boston on the president's visit tomorrow.
A second letter containing a granular substance that preliminarily tested positive for ricin was received at an offsite mail screening facility. The envelope, addressed to the President, was immediately quarantined by U.S. Secret Service personnel, and a coordinated investigation with the FBI was initiated. It is important to note that operations at the White House have not been affected as a result of the investigation.
Additionally, filters at a second government mail screening facility preliminarily tested positive for ricin this morning. Mail from that facility is being tested.
Any time suspicious powder is located in a mail facility, field tests are conducted. The field and other preliminary tests can produce inconsistent results. Any time field tests indicate the possibility of a biological agent, the material is sent to an accredited laboratory for further analysis. Only a full analysis performed at an accredited laboratory can determine the presence of a biological agent such as ricin. Those tests are currently being conducted and generally take 24 to 48 hours.
The investigation into these letters remains ongoing, and more letters may still be received. There is no indication of a connection to the attack in Boston.
17.20 (12.20) Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, is giving a press conference. He says the letters are currently subject to an investigation by the FBI.
Twitter: Andrew Kaczynski - Jay Carney: "The President has been briefed on the letters. He was briefed last night and this morning."
17.17 (12.17) Reuters is reporting that US Capitol police are questioning an individual over the suspicious envelopes.
17.14 (12.14) More victims' stories are coming out and are grim.
Sydney Corcoran, a high school student, had her legs torn by shrapnel. Her mother had to have both her legs amputated. On the day of the bombs, Sydney was pictured benig cradled on the ground.
Two years ago Sydney suffered a fractured skull in a car accident. Her brother, Tyler, who cancelled attending the marathon at the last minute, said: "I thought we were done with traumatic events."
Sydney Corcoran in the wake of the Boston bombs
16.55 (11.55) Capitol Police are reportedly responding to the reports of suspicious packages at two Senate office buildings and a bomb squad is on the scene, according to Politico.
The buildings have not been evacuated, but certain areas of the buildings are closed.
16.38 (11.38) The Secret Service has said that a letter delivered to Barack Obama containing a "suspicious" substance was intercepted at a mail screening facility outside the White House.
16.10 (11.10) My colleague Raf Sanchez reports from Washington that the sense of anxiety in the US has deepened as it now emerges that up to three letters - one sent to the White House and two to the Senate - have tested positive for Ricin.
16.06 (11.06) In Norway, which has had its own terrorism problems in the last couple of years, the governing Labour Party has tightened security at its first convention since Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting massacre.
Labour officials cited an "overall assessment" of the situation in Norway, but wouldn't say whether the raised security level was linked to Anders Behring Breivik's attacks on July 22, 2011, or the explosions at the Boston Marathon this week.
15.35 (10.35) Alex Spillius has more on pressure cooker bombs
After the FBI disclosed on Tuesday night that pressure cookers were used for at least one of the bombs placed at the Boston marathon, it has been pointed out that al-Qaeda linked groups have also favoured them in recent years.
Such instances are detailed here by CBC.
The most prevalent use has been in South Asia, where the cookers are common to many kitchens.
In 2004, the US Department of Homeland Security released an memo warning that pressure cooker bombs were “a technique commonly taught in Afghan terrorist training camps is the use/conversion of pressure cookers into IEDs [improvised explosive devices]".
An update in 2010 recorded that pressure cooker bombs have been frequently used in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
Faisal Shazad, the failed Times Square bomber, built a pressure cooker device as one of his three bombs.
Rarely used in the West now, the pressure cooker is a cheap precursor to the microwave, cooking food quickly by steaming – typically rice, soups and stews - beneath a sealed lid.
15.05 (10.05) Dr Peter Burke at the Boston Medical Centre says most of the injuries his hospital has treated were under the waist.
The hospital treated 23 people following the bombs, with 19 still there by this morning.
15.00 (10.00) Police say they have a suspect in mind regarding a letter mailed to a US senator that tested positive for poisonous ricin, according to the Associated Press.
Tests indicated that a letter mailed to the Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker's Washington office contained the potentially deadly toxin.
There has been no evidence of a connection between the ricing incident and Boston but the Capitol has been on edge since Monday afternoon.
14.45 (9.45) The investigation is focusing on a suspect or suspects believed to have carried heavy bags or backpacks, but there are still no answers as to who was behind the attack.
Investigators survey the site of the bomb blast
The remains of an explosive device
14.40 (9.40) A woman sitting in shock surrounded by blood in the wake of the Boston marathon bombs has been identified as Nicole Gross.
Mrs Gross, 31, was standing near the finish line of the race in Monday when she was hit by the impact of the bomb, suffering a broken leg and ankle in the process. She also suffered torn skin and her Achilles' tendon was severed.
She sat up in the street, with her clothes torn and legs spattered in blood, when a photographer for the Boston Globe took her picture. She was featured on the front page of Tuesday's New York Daily News among other papers.
Mrs Gross, a personal trainer from Charlotte, North Carolina, had travelled to Boston with her husband Michael and sister Erika Brannock to watch their mother Carol Downing take part in the run.
Ms Downing had not finished by the time the bomb went off.
While Mrs Gross escaped with fractures – her sister was not so lucky. Ms Brannock, a 29-year-old preschool teacher who lives in Baltimore, had to undergo the partial amputation of her left leg, according to the Charlotte Observer. She also suffered a fracture in her right leg as well as a broken ankle and foot.
Nicole Gross
13.42 (8.42) ABC News has just tweeted that the father of Lu Lingzi, the third fatality in the Boston marathon bombs, was an only child, in keeping with China's "one child" policy.
Twitter: ABC News - Just in: Father of 23 y/o Chinese BU grad student killed in Boston confirms daughter was only child, in keeping w/China's "one child" policy
He also told the organisation that they have declined several interview requests because: "Every time we speak about this, it is like a dagger in our hearts."
13.13 (8.13) Philip Sherwell tells us that the lid of the pressure cooker was found on a rooftop nearby. ABC's local affiliate says other parts found include a partial circuit board.
12.54 (7.54) Condoleezza Rice, the former US secretary of state who was President George W. Bush's national security adviser when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, has said that terrorist attacks like the one that rocked the Boston Marathon present presidents with a leadership dilemma.
While presidents typically wants to comfort the nation, Rice says, it can be difficult for them to do this while saying or doing nothing that would compromise a crime investigation.
Rice tells "CBS This Morning" President Barack Obama "wants to reassure the American people that the government is on the trail." But she also says he "has to be very careful not to give out information prematurely here and they have to be sure they aren't tipping off the people who are responsible."
12.33 (7.33) Rob Crilly, our Islamabad correspondent, tells us that the murky world of online Jihadi forums has been "buzzing" with extremists posting messages supporting the bomb blasts, but have no shed any light on who might be responsible.
Analysts who monitor the websites say Jihadist groups are just as uncertain as investigators probing the double bombing.
The simple design of the bombs – using relatively low powered explosives, packed with shrapnel inside a pressure cooker – means they could just as easily have been constructed by home-grown extremists as al-Qaeda trained bomb-makers.
That has not stopped Islamist forums celebrating the carnage and trying to claim the attack.
“This explosion has the signature of our brothers,” says a post on Ansar-al-Mujahideen, according to a translation provided by the website Vocative.
Another member wrote: “This is a series of planned explosions against central cities in America. Hopefully it’s the beginning of more attacks in the future with Allah’s will. I ask Allah that the Jihad is the one responsible for the attack.”
12.00 (7.00) If you missed his report this morning, Philip Sherwell looked at the tales of heroism that emerged from Boston.
Chris Rupe, a surgeon from Kansas, had finished the marathon just moments before the blasts. When he realised the full horror of what was unfolding, he roused his weary limbs for a final race to help the wounded.
For an hour, he delivered life-saving emergency treatment to victims pushed into the medical tent on wheelchairs with limbs hanging off or blown away.
Nearby, Bruce Mendelsohn, who had been attending a race party by the course, deployed the techniques he learned as a medic in the US army, staunching the blood flowing from terrible wounds.
"This stuff is more like Baghdad and Bombay than Boston," he said. "It was pretty terrifying."
11.12 (6.12) Tom Phillips has more on Lu Lingzi.
Late last year, after graduating in Beijing, she moved to the United States to study for a Master’s degree in statistics at Boston University.
“New Hampshire is such a great place!” Ms Lu wrote on her Facebook page on October 7 last year. The Boston University student celebrated the start of her American adventure in an online photo gallery called: “New Beginning in BU.”
Towards the start of her time in the United States, she joined a group of international students on an excursion to the Toah Nipi Retreat, a countryside retreat for Christians around 90 minutes drive from Boston. The retreat’s website describes it as “a place to come away, meet God, and be renewed”.
The student also appears to have been a fan of classical music – her Facebook page contains a link to the site of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
By Wednesday morning, friends and micro-bloggers had posted over 5,000 messages on the student’s Weibo account, underneath a photograph she posted just hours before being killed in Boston. The photograph, of that day’s breakfast, carried the caption: “My wonderful breakfast.”
“An innocent victim of terrorist attack,” wrote one micro-blogger under the name Zhakutahetu_Dazhi. “There is no evil in paradise. I wish you a good journey!”
“I don't want to believe it is true,” wrote another.
Lu Lingzi
10.53 (5.53) Robert Tait, our Jerusalem correspondent, reports that competitors from Gaza planning to run this coming Sunday's Bethlehem marathon have been refused entry by Israel on security grounds.
This comes weeks after the UN relief agency, UNWRA, cancelled a similar event in Gaza after the territories Hamas rulers barred women competitors - a development the IDF and other Israeli official bodies made great propaganda play out of by parading it as an example of Hamas' repressiveness and Gaza's increasing Islamisation. Now Israeli authorities have turned down a request by the Palestinian Olympic Committee to allow Gaza athletes denied the chance to compete in their local event to travel through Israeli territory to participate in the Bethlehem. Human rights groups have condemned Israel's refusal as a contravention of rules on the freedom of movement as well as example of hypocrisy.
10.30 (5.30) Photos sent to the US news organisation 7 News show the scene of the explosions just before and after. The pictures have been provided to the FBI.
In the first picture, highlighted by 7 News, a bag can clearly be seen beside a mail box and up against a barricade. In the second one, taken about an hour later and as the explosion went off, the bag is no longer there.
10.00 (5.00) Telegraph TV has footage of the first pictures of the explosive devices.
9.35 (4.35) The Washington Post today focuses on the pressure cooker bombs. It points out that it has been used a bomb case since the 1970s with instructions in the Anarchist's Cookbook, an anti-Vietnam war counter-culture cult book. So it doesn't necessarily point to al-Qaeda, although it has been used several times by such groups.
9.30 (4.30) Our Sydney correspondent Jonathan Pearlman writes that one of Australia’s most prominent radio “shock jocks”, Alan Jones, has come under attack after blaming the Boston Marathon bombings on "left-wing radical students" and urging Australia to reduce its intake of foreign university students. Jones suggested students were the culprits because Boston was home to Harvard and MIT.
9.19 (4.19) The Chinese student who died in the attacks is being widely named. The Boston Globe has picked up on a report by the Shenyang Evening News that her name is Lu Lingzi.
An editor at Shenyang said Lu's father confirmed his daughter's death when reporters visited the family home.
9.06 (4.06) Fox television has pulled a recent episode of cartoon "Family Guy" that depicted mass deaths at the Boston Marathon.
In the episode, which originally aired in March, main character Peter Griffin is asked by sports announcer Bob Costas about his performance at the marathon. A flashback shows Peter mowing down runners with his car.
"I'll tell ya, Bob, I just got in my car and drove it," Griffin says. "And when there was a guy in my way, I killed him."
Later, Peter befriends a terrorist who, unbeknownst to him, is plotting to blow up a bridge. When Peter dials a cellphone the friend has given him, explosions and screams are heard. On some websites, an edited clip has been circulating that fuses the two scenes, making it seem - incorrectly - as if the explosion was at the marathon.
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane took to Twitter on Tuesday to vent anger over the edited clip and offer condolences to victims of Monday's bombings at the marathon.
Twitter: Seth MacFarlane - The edited Family Guy clip currently circulating is abhorrent. The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims.
8.50 (3.50) A Saudi man who had reportedly been questioned in the aftermath of the bombings is being considered a witness rather than a suspect.
Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi, 22, is in hospital. His apartment in Revere, Massachusetts, was reportedly search in the wake of the explosions.
8.28 (3.28) In Medford, near Boston, Patty Campbell last night paid tribute to her 29-year-old daughter Krystle, one of the three victims.
8.17 (3.17) One of the most recognisable images of the bombings is Carlos Arredondo, the stetson-wearing hero, helping a victim of the attack. While Arredondo has an interesting back story, as told by Harriet Alexander, the New York Times has more on the victim.
Jeff Bauman is the man being wheeled to safety - after losing both of his legs.
His father, also called Jeff Bauman, called his son's mobile phone repeatedly in the aftermath of the bombs, but could not get through.
His stepdaughter Erika then called him.
“Did you see the picture?” she asked. “Jeffrey’s on the news. He got hurt.”
“Are you sure? Are you sure?” He was shouting now.
“Yes! Yes! I’m sure!” she shouted back.
Mr Bauman found the picture on Facebook. It was not the whole picture, the one that showed Jeff’s left leg blown off at the calf. He started calling Boston-area hospitals and found his son registered at Boston Medical Center. He and his wife, Csilla, drove from their home in Concord, N.H., and reached Jeff’s side just before 8 p.m.
The surgery was already done. Both Jeff’s legs had been amputated at the knee.
Carlos Arredondo (wearing Stetson) and victim Jeff Bauman, who lost both his legs
8.10 (3.10) The city of Boston last night paid tribute to the victims of the marathon bombs.
More than 1,000 people held a candlelit vigil in a park near the home of eight-year-old Martin Richard. Other ceremonies were also held in the city for those killed and the 180 injured.
Martin Richard, 8, who was killed by the bombs at the Boston Marathon
People gather for the vigil for eight-year-old Martin Richard, from Dorchester, who was killed by an explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon
8.00 (3.00) The third victim of the bombs has been identified as a 23-year-old student from Shenyang in the northeastern province of Liaoning in China. Tom Phillips, our Shanghai correspondent, writes that the student's name has been widely cited on social media and some Chinese news outlets but state media Xinhua said the victim's family did not want her name made public.
The victim was studying at Boston University, and was reportedly waiting near the finish line with two friends when the explosions went off.
7.55 (2.55) The FBI last night released images of the bombs as it appealed for information from the public on who could be behind the attacks.
At a news conference, special agent Richard DesLauriers admitted the authorities still did not know who is responsible for the bombings and that the range of suspects and motives remained "wide open".
Remains of a pressure cooker the FBI says was part of one of the bombs that exploded during the Boston Marathon
7.50am (2.50am EDT) Good morning and welcome back to our latest coverage of the Boston Marathon bombs and the FBI investigation.
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