FBI hunts suspect in Boston bombing

Federal investigators were searching for a man that a video caught planting one of the two bombs that exploded in the sidelines of the Boston Marathon.

What happened

Federal investigators were searching for a man that a video caught planting one of the two bombs that exploded in the tightly crowded sidelines of the Boston Marathon this week, killing three people and leaving over 180 wounded. The video, from a Lord & Taylor department store camera directly across the street from the blasts, showed a man wearing a white baseball cap turned backward who carried and then dropped a black backpack at the site. Still photos of the crowd taken before the bombings showed at least one other man carrying a black backpack like that found shredded after the explosions. The coordinated bombings on the city’s Patriots’ Day were the worst terror attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. The bombs were fashioned out of pressure cookers, and packed with explosives, ball bearings, and shards of metal so as to kill or maim as many as possible. They were hidden in black nylon bags about 100 yards from each other, near the end of the marathon route.

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