4/15/13, "'These runners just finished and they don’t have legs now':
Witnesses recount war zone at Boston Marathon as bombs left 26th mile
littered with disembodied limbs and 'shoes with flesh still in them'," UK Daily Mail
"'These runners just finished and they
don’t have legs now,' 35-year-old Roupen Bastajian, a Rhode Island
state trooper and former Marine, told the New York Times.
'So many of them. There are so many people without legs. It’s all
blood. There’s blood everywhere. You got bones, fragments. It’s
disgusting.'...
'Bodies and body parts. Blood all
over. A little boy lying in the street. A young woman in her twenties.
Both dead. It was mayhem. I saw two people with arms hanging loose, and
one without a leg.
At least 17 people are in critical condition and some are not expected to survive the night. Victims lost at least ten limbs in the blast.
Three people have died, including eight-year-old Martin Richard, who was waiting for his father near the finish line.
Several
news outlets have reported that ball bearings were used in the bombs.
The small steel balls are popular among bomb-makers the world over
because each one becomes a deadly projectile when launched by the
explosive force of a bomb.
Some doctors, though, said they found street debris in the wounds of their patients, not ball bearings.
'Rocks, bits of metal, soda cans,
anything that is really close to a blast like that can be fragmented,'
Dr. Ron Walls, chair of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, told ABC News.
'Everything we saw was ordinary material that could have been propelled by the device.'...
'It was chaos - blood and limbs everywhere. There was a man who had lost a leg, another had lost both,' he said.
'There were seven, eight, nine people lying on the ground. They appeared to be dead."...
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