Police raid Boston home linked to burned Saudi student who was ‘acting suspiciously’ near marathon finish line after bombs that killed 3 and injured 176

marathon raid 4A law enforcement source  told CBS: ‘They see him running away from the device. Now, a reasonable person  would be running away. But this person had noticed him before. This is a  civilian — chases him down, tackles him, turns him over to the Boston police.

‘The individual is being  looked at [and] was suffering from burn injury. That means this person was  pretty close to wherever this blast went off, but not so close as to suffer the  serious injuries that other people did.’

Though many patients were  treated for minor cuts and scrapes, doctors have also been ‘pulling ball  bearings and projectiles out of people in the emergency room’. This suggests the  bombs were designed to propel shrapnel, one terrorism expert briefed on the  Boston blasts told CNN.

Rep Pete King, a Long  Island republican who chairs the house counterterrorism subcommittee told ABC  news that the bombings had ‘all the trademarks of an al Qaeda  attack’.

Defense secretary Chuck  Hagel today called the bombings a ‘cruel act of terror’ and said it will be  ‘approached as an act of terror’.

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