At least two people are dead and dozens injured -- including up to 10 with amputated limbs, after two bombs rocked the area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Police Department.
Explosions within ten seconds apart went of at the end of the race. Competitors and race organizers were crying as they fled the bloody chaos, while some witnesses reported seeing victims with lost limbs.
Witnesses heard explosions that were extremely loud. First reports said that the first explosions took place inside the lobby of the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel, according to multiple local reports.
"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."
"A Boston police officer was wheeled from the course with a leg injury that was bleeding.
The loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street. Another thunderous explosion could be heard a few seconds later.
Runner Laura McLean of Toronto said she heard two explosions outside the medical tent.
"There are people who are really, really bloody," McLean said. "They were pulling them into the medical tent."
Cherie Falgoust was waiting for her husband, who was running the race. "I was expecting my husband any minute," she said. "I don't know what this building is ... it just blew. Just a big bomb, a loud boom, and then glass everywhere. Something hit my head. I don't know what it was. I just ducked."
The Associated Press said two additonal bombs were found, and have been disassembled.
Massachusetts General Hospital have treated over 100 injuries on Monday.
