BOSTON (Reuters) – Security officials on Wednesday ordered staff, media and attorneys to evacuate Boston’s federal courthouse, according to a Reuters reporter on the scene.
Scores of people could be seen leaving the building. No further details were immediately available.
“Get away from the building. I can’t stress this enough, people,” a uniformed law enforcement official yelled at the crowd.
(Reporting by Tim McLaughlin, writing by Scott Malone, editing by Gary Crosse and Steve Orlofsky)
DEVELOPING: Police said no arrests have been made in the Boston Marathon bombing, despite widespread earlier reports that a suspect was in custody in the deadly attack Monday.
Earlier, Fox News learned that the circuit board suspected of being used to detonate the at least one of the bombs has been recovered, and that FBI investigators continue to scan and analyze the cell phone tower records to identify positive hits for signs of calls that may have triggered both explosions remotely. Investigators believe one, or possibly two, pressure cookers were packed with explosives and shrapnel and hidden in backpacks to be left amid the crowd.
UPDATE: DEVELOPING: Investigators have arrested a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, a federal source confirmed to FoxNews.com.
AP REPORTS SOURCE CONFIRMING ‘SUSPECT’ IN BOMBING AND ARREST ‘IMMINENT’
By Catherine Herridge Published April 17, 2013
DEVELOPING: Investigators have identified a suspect believed to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing and sources told The Associated Press that an arrest is imminent.
The suspect was captured on surveillance footage and showed a young man carrying – and perhaps dropping – a black bag at the second bombing scene at Monday’s Boston Marathon. The camera at Lord & Taylor, located directly across the street, has given investigators clear video of the area, according to the unnamed official.
“The camera from Lord & Taylor is the best source of video so far,” said Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Boston Globe. “All I know is that they are making progress.”
Fox News has been told that the circuit board suspected of being used to detonate the Boston Marathon bomb has been recovered, and that FBI investigators continue to scan and analyze the cell phone tower records to identify positive hits for signs of calls that may have triggered both explosions remotely.
According to a FBI and Department of Homeland Security bulletin, the evidence at this time supports just one pressure cooker used. Shrapnel in that device included nails, BBs and ball bearings. The main charge – possibly low explosive – has not been identified. The other device “was also housed in a metal container, but currently there is insufficient evidence to determine if it was also a pressure cooker. The fuse system and method of initiation for the two devices are unknown at this time.”
Pressure cooker bombs have been used in high-profile bombings in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and have been touted in the Al Qaeda in Yemen’s online propaganda magazine Inspire and in the “The Anarchist Cookbook.”
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