By Damien Fletcher
17 Apr 2013 01:08
A bag can be seen next to a mail box against a barricade as onlookers watch the marathon runners pass by
Scene: Bag left near mail box is highlighted
7News
These two pictures being studied by the FBI could hold vital clues to the Boston Marathon bombing.
In the first photo, a bag can be seen next to a mail box against a barricade as onlookers watch the marathon runners pass by.
A second picture, taken an hour later on Boylston Street outside the Forum Bar, shows victims of the blast lying where the bag had been.
The photo has been purposefully blurred by US TV channel 7News to mask out bodies of the dead and the maimed.
FBI forensic experts were last night studying also nylon fibres discovered at the scene of one of the blasts.
Horror: Maimed victims near where the bag had been
7News
The bombs were lethal devices consisting of metal, nails and ball bearings crammed into pressure cookers, it emerged yesterday.
Both bombs – packed with the deadly shards – were carefully placed in bags and hidden near the finishing line, according to US sources.
They had been deliberately designed to cause explosions that would injure, maim and kill innocent bystanders.
Law enforcement officials do not yet know what was used to detonate the six-litre pressure cooker bombs.
The devices have been used in India, Nepal, Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, according to an FBI and Homeland Security intelligence report from 2010.
One of the three devices used in the May 2010 New York Times Square attempted bombing was also a pressure cooker.
A bag can be seen next to a mail box against a barricade as onlookers watch the marathon runners pass by
Scene: Bag left near mail box is highlighted7News
These two pictures being studied by the FBI could hold vital clues to the Boston Marathon bombing.
In the first photo, a bag can be seen next to a mail box against a barricade as onlookers watch the marathon runners pass by.
A second picture, taken an hour later on Boylston Street outside the Forum Bar, shows victims of the blast lying where the bag had been.
The photo has been purposefully blurred by US TV channel 7News to mask out bodies of the dead and the maimed.
FBI forensic experts were last night studying also nylon fibres discovered at the scene of one of the blasts.
Horror: Maimed victims near where the bag had been7News
The bombs were lethal devices consisting of metal, nails and ball bearings crammed into pressure cookers, it emerged yesterday.
Both bombs – packed with the deadly shards – were carefully placed in bags and hidden near the finishing line, according to US sources.
They had been deliberately designed to cause explosions that would injure, maim and kill innocent bystanders.
Law enforcement officials do not yet know what was used to detonate the six-litre pressure cooker bombs.
The devices have been used in India, Nepal, Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, according to an FBI and Homeland Security intelligence report from 2010.
One of the three devices used in the May 2010 New York Times Square attempted bombing was also a pressure cooker.
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