There were two booms heard from near the finish line inside the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel.
Race officials locked down the hotel because of the report.
The sound of two booms, which sounded like thunder, had come a short time earlier.
UPDATE 9:55pm
Officials found 5 more suspect devices, but late Monday said they now doubt the devices were bombs. Wall Street Journal Says
UPDATE 9:26pm
According FOX25 Three people, including an 8-year-old boy, are among the dead following a bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line.
More than 100 people suffered broken or amputated limbs, shrapnel wounds and various other injuries ranging from minor to critical.
The Boston Globe reported that one of the victims was an 8-year-old boy. The boy was not identified.
Officials said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had taken the lead on an investigation into the attack.The special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office said investigators were treating the investigation as criminal and potentially terrorist.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said officers were painstakingly searching through bags and debris that had been left behind by fleeing marathon watchers to determine if there were any more explosive devices.
UPDATE 6:34pm
Law enforcement sources tell ABC and CNN that the FBI considers the twin explosions to be the work of terrorists. No arrests have been made. Officials have not given any indication of what triggered the powerful explosions.
Nuclear power plants in Massachusetts and New Hampshire have increased security after two bombs exploded in Boston on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens. The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Mass., and the Seabrook Station in Seabrook, N.H., heightened checks of vehicles, materials and individuals entering the plants.
Pilgrim, about 45 miles south of Boston, was already shut down for refueling when the explosions occurred. Seabrook is about 45 miles north of Boston in Seabrook, N.H.
Eliot Brenner, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said federal officials have not ordered changes in security at other U.S. nuclear reactors in the wake of the Boston explosions.
More than 100 reportedly injured.
UPDATE: 6:10pm
57 are currently confirmed injured and the JFK library explosion appears not to be related. President Obama currently doing a press conference.
UPDATE: : 5:47
President Obama will hold a press conference at 6:10pm.
UPDATE: 5:20pm
Cell phone service in Boston has been shut down.
UPDATE: 4:55pm
Officials say that there has been an explosion at JFK library.
UPDATE: 4:33pm
According to report that there has been two more bombs discovered and are being dismantled.
UPDATED: 4:23pm
NBC News is reporting that a small homemade bomb is the preliminary cause of the explosion -- law enforcement officials tell NBC News.
23 injured and 2 killed at this point in time.
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| A woman is comforted by a man near a triage tent set up for the Boston Marathon after explosions went off at the 117th Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts April 15, 2013. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi |
UPDATE 3:25pm
BOSTON - Two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon have resulted in injuries.
Bloody spectators were being carried Monday to the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners. Police wove through competitors as they ran back toward the course.
"There are a lot of people down," said one man, whose bib No. 17528 identified him as Frank Deruyter of North Carolina.
He was not injured, but marathon workers were carrying one woman, who did not appear to be a runner, to the medical area as blood gushed from her leg. A Boston police officer was wheeled from the course with a leg injury that was bleeding.
About three hours after the winners crossed the line, there was a loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish line.
Another explosion could be heard a few seconds later.
Multiple casualties are reported after at least two explosions were heard near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Herald.
Witnesses reportedly heard two booms that sounded like two claps of thunder near the finish line inside the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel.
The explosions occurred just before 3 p.m. Video of the scene showed a number of emergency crews in the area tending to victims and blood on the ground near the finish line.
"I saw two explosions. The first one was beyond the finish line. I heard a loud bang and I saw smoke rising," Boston Herald reporter Chris Cassidy, who was running in the marathon, told the newspaper. "I kept running and I heard behind me a loud bang. It looked like it was in a trash can or something...There are people who have been hit with debris, people with bloody foreheads.”
A photographer with Fox affiliate WFXT reported seeing a number of victims with lost limbs.
Competitors and race organizers were crying as they fled the chaos. Bloody spectators were being carried to the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners.
"There are a lot of people down," said one man, whose bib No. 17528 identified him as Frank Deruyter of North Carolina. He was not injured, but marathon workers were carrying one woman, who did not appear to be a runner, to the medical area as blood gushed from her leg. A Boston police officer was wheeled from the course with a leg injury that was bleeding.
About three hours after the winners crossed the line, there was a loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish line. Another thunderous explosion could be heard a few seconds later.
Runner Laura McLean of Toronto said she heard two explosions outside the medical tent.
"There are people who are really, really bloody," McLean said. "They were pulling them into the medical tent."
Cherie Falgoust was waiting for her husband, who was running the race. "I was expecting my husband any minute," she said. "I don't know what this building is ... it just blew. Just a big bomb, a loud boom, and then glass everywhere. Something hit my head. I don't know what it was. I just ducked."
UPDATE 4:11pm
Atleast two killed and 22 injured after explosions at the Boston marathon finish line.
This story will be updated as information comes available...
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