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Boston marathon bombs were pressure cookers packed with nails and ball bearings

Boston marathon bombs were pressure cookers packed with nails and ball bearings

Both bombs – packed with the deadly shards – were carefully placed in black duffel bags and hidden near the finishing line, according to sources
Mayhem: Bloodied victims being rescued after first bomb just as second one explodes
The Boston bombs which unleashed terror at the marathon were lethal devices consisting of metal, nails and ball bearings crammed into pressure cookers, it emerged today.Both bombs – packed with the deadly shards – were carefully placed in black duffel 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.President Obama today admitted the US authorities still had no idea who was behind the attacks.However, officials disclosed that similar bombs had been used in Afghanistan.Dr David Mooney, Director of the trauma centre at Boston Children’s Hospital, said: “One of the sickest things for me was seeing nails sticking out of a little girl’s body.”As the fog lifted from the bloodied city streets, a clearer picture emerged as to the horror behind the destruction which killed three – including eight-year-old Martin Richard – and injured 176.

Hunt: Investigators at scene
Of those rushed to hospital, 17 are tonight still in a critical condition.The FBI were maintaining a 24-hour guard on a 20-year-old Saudi student Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi who is ­recovering in hospital from shrapnel wounds caused by the one of the blasts.He was being questioned by police after, according to reports in the US, he was tackled by a bystander who thought he was acting suspiciously.Sources claimed that he smelled of gunpowder and asked: “Did anyone die?”Alharbi’s room-mate Mohammed Badawood, 20, described the devout Muslim as “quiet and clean” and said he was “incapable of such a monstrous act”.He moved into a flat in the seaside suburb of Revere five months ago and was studying in the US on a valid visa.Their fifth-floor apartment was raided by agents of the FBI and Homeland Security.They left this morning taking away several brown paper bags, a duffel bag and two rubbish sacks.The two explosions came on the Patriots’ Day holiday, 12 seconds apart.The first, just metres from the finish line, rocked the final stretch of the marathon route four hours into the race on Monday.There then followed a second explosion about 100 metres back on the same street.More than 17,000 competitors had completed the run before the bombs were detonated.However, there were still fun-runners crossing the line at the time.Dr Stephen Epstein at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said he saw an X-ray of one victim’s leg.He added: “There appeared to be small, uniform, round objects throughout it – similar to ball- bearings.”Dr George Velhamos, of Massachusetts General, also described the fragments, adding: “Some were pellets, others were like nails without heads which tore into the skin.”
Man on the ground: Mirror's US editor Christopher Bucktin
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Speaking of those who needed amputations above the knee, he said: “We had to do this because their legs were completely destroyed."We just completed the ugly job that the bomb did, their legs were mangled.”District Fire Chief Ron Harrington of the Boston Fire Department’s District 3 recalled: “There was blood everywhere."A little boy lying in the street. A young woman in her 20s. Both dead.“I saw people with arms hanging loose, and one without a leg. It was mayhem.”Law enforcement officials did 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 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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Just two months earlier militants used a pressure cooker bomb to attack the US-based Christian aid group World Vision in north-west Pakistan, killing six local employees.Obama called the attacks, which no one has yet claimed responsibility for, a “heinous and cowardly act”.He added: “The American people refuse to be terrorised.“We do not know whether this was an international or domestic organisation, or perhaps by a malevolent individual.“It is a heinous cowardly act and the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism.“If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil, that’s it: Selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.”

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