Beiruting News

More than 144 people hurt in the Boston Marathon bombing were sent to hospitals, officials said, and three were killed. Seventeen of the injured were in critical condition Monday night. 
The two bombs hundreds of yards apart created a "very powerful blast" that caused mostly lower-body injuries to bone, soft tissue and blood vessels, doctors said. Ten victims needed amputations.
Murray, a member of the Team GB squad at last summer's London Olympics, was shopping in a mall about half a mile from the finish at the time of the blasts before rushing back to his hotel.
"All of a sudden people were running about and I didn't know what was going on," he said. "It was very scary. 
Many spectators along the marathon route were college students marking the annual citywide party called "Marathon Monday," which accompanies the race held on Patriots Day each year.