Boston Marathon bombing

The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon on April... Wikipedia

  • Location:  Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
  • Date:  April 15, 2013, 2:49 p.m. (EST)
  • Attack type:  Bombings, domestic terrorism, mass murder, shootout
  • Weapons:  Two pressure cooker bombs
  • Deaths:  6 (3 from the bombing itself, 3 in the subsequent manhunt, including one of the perpetrators)
  • Non-fatal injuries:  281
  • Victims:  Martin Richard, 8, Lingzi Lu (吕令子), 23, Krystle Campbell, 29, Sean Collier, 27 (MIT shooting), Dennis Simmonds, 28 (Watertown shootout, died in 2014)
  • Perpetrators:  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
  • Motive:  Retribution for American military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, Islamic terrorism
  • Convictions:  30 counts (Dzhokhar)
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo
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