Obama in Boston to mourn blast victims
President Barack Obama yesterday sought to console Boston after the deadly terror attack on the city's marathon as police focused their hunt on two suspects caught on video cameras.
The president and First Lady Michelle Obama attended a special inter-faith service at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross with victims of Monday's double bomb attack, rescuers, and city and state leaders.
While Obama has vowed a relentless hunt for the attackers, he went to Boston with a message of "healing" to help the city past the devastation of the bombs at the race's finish line, which killed three people and wounded 180.
He also plans to meet with some of the victims of the bombings.
No arrests have been made in connection with the twin bombings that are the worst attack in the United States since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
But media reports said authorities would later release images of two suspects believed to have planted the pressure cooker bombs that sprayed nails, ball bearings and other metal fragments into the thousands-strong crowd.
No claim of responsibility has been made for the attack and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has launched a "worldwide" hunt.
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