Boylston Street

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Map showing key locations and events related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing in the Boston, Cambridge, and Watertown areas of Massachusetts. Numbered markers indicate where the two explosions occurred near the marathon finish line, the fatal shooting of an MIT police officer, a carjacking, a carjacking victim's escape, the death of one suspect after a firefight, and the capture of the second suspect in Watertown. Major roads, the Charles River, and landmarks such as the Massachusetts Institu

Boylston Street

street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Boston Marathon bombing of 2013
The attacks
…on the north side of Boylston Street. Roughly 12 seconds later a second bomb exploded some 600 feet (180 metres) from the first. It too was planted on the north side of Boylston Street amid a crowd of onlookers. First responders reacted immediately, and a medical tent that had been…
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…on the north side of Boylston Street. Roughly 12 seconds later a second bomb exploded some 600 feet (180 metres) from the first. It too was planted on the north side of Boylston Street amid a crowd of onlookers. First responders reacted immediately, and a medical tent that had been…
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