While the pictures of the injured look weirdly similar to the scene out of Boston two weeks ago — foil blankets, blood, and bandages in a major city — officials in the Czech capital are saying the blast was actually a natural gas explosion.
Something terrible has happened in Boston, this is clear from television and from the Internet, from photos on Twitter, from the news reporters on the ground, and from the images of those left bloody and wounded by what's currently being reported as two explosions located near the finish line near Copley Place.
At least 14 people were injured, some critically, and authorities fear there may be some deaths after a gas explosion leveled a restaurant in Kansas City.
An explosion left two homes completely destroyed in an Indianpolis subdivision Saturday night and nearly took the rest of the neighborhood out with it.
Israel's prime minister says Iran was behind an apparent terrorist attack in Bulgaria, in which a bus carrying some 40 Israeli tourists exploded in an airport parking lot, killing at least three and injuring 27.
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