Crime & Safety

Witness: 'All of a Sudden Everyone Turned Around and Was Running in the Opposite Direction'

Witnesses on the scene heard the explosion and then the wave of people trying to escape the blast area.

 

UMass Boston student Mary Bickford, 21, from Abington describes the scene on Boylston Street just after the explosions rocked the end of the Boston Marathon course.  

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