Boston USA

How young can can ever do this to another man,woman or child we'll never know. My heart breaks for all those families involved and the people who live in Boston.

My daughter-in-law is an RN in Boston and she has had to go into work, she was happy to do so, and the hospital is surrounded by police. Our son can't get to work as the networks are all closed. Fortunately there is the internet!! Friends and family keep phoning to ask if the family are safe, which is so kind of them.

They think the suspects are from near Chechnya.

I hope they get the second on alive. The world needs to know why?!

One dead. The other armed and dangerous.

It sounds as if one of the suspects has been killed by the police, FBI or Homeland Security all of whom have been involved in this massive "invasion" of Cambridge and its environs.

Surely they will get them now pictures have been released.

Heard on the news , the FBI are discounting any further bombings .

That is good news for the Citizens of Boston.

absent of course killing all people is wrong. I somehow care more about innocent children. If that is a fault, then it lies with me.

I remember just missing the IRA bomb in Hyde park, very unnerving. An American who I knew said she could understand why London was being bombed as we had been horrible to the Irish! No one should be put through this any where in the World.

Thinking of all the lives that were changed forever in those few moments yesterday.
So glad I didn't know beforehand - my sister was there. She's very shaken, but physically okay.

I found the long array of flags a very poignant sight, amongst the devastation.
I wondered if this dreadful event was aimed not just at the Americans but internationally. There would have been many runners from across the globe.

Not random in the minds of terrorists necessarily – indeed, usually carefully planned – but apparently random for the general public. Of course this might not be a random attack given that the bombs were located by a VIP area. It remains to be seen what the police and FBI can uncover. Whatever – it's still a shocking and hideous event.

I have had to switch it off, too - I am afraid the media go over and over things and try to draw every little drop of sensationalism out of it.

It is so sad when there were so many happy people enjoying their day out - I see the FBI is not ruling anything out.

My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those affected.

I wonder how random it is in the minds of the terrorists who have done this, absent? Are they moving to another stage of targeting 'easy' victims? Reminds me of the Warrington bombing. Hopefully, the FBI will soon get insider information.

Even a city that does go out of its way to ruffle feathers – if there is such a place – doesn't deserve bombs.

Surely the very nature of terrorism – foreign or homegrown – is the random nature of the attack. People feel terror because they don't know where or when it will happen again.

Senseless! Why Boston? Indeed, why anywhere, but Boston is a beautiful city, of great people, that doesn't go out of its way to ruffle anyone's feathers. What a cowardly way to pick on people who are doing no-one any harm. My sincere condolences to the people of Boston.

Surely killing people, whether adults or children, whether known or strangers, whether through terrorism, war or straightforward murder, is simply wrong.

I know many children have been, and sadly are being, killed in the war torn countries, but that cannot make this right. It's so sad for all of them.

So awful that an eight year old boy is amongst the dead. So very sad.

I was in Boston a few years ago, such an awful thing to happen, I heard some of the parents from the Connecticut shooting tragedy were in the crowds. I am so sorry for anyone who has been affected by this latest tragedy.

I can not understand who would do such a thing! How can we live in fear? We were lucky that there was no attack on the Olympics, not without trying of course. Vile!

What on earth possess people to commit such devastation, on such an occasion. I find it enormously saddening.

Shocking, dreadful news. So many lives blighted

Munich and Atlanta Olympics were both targeted but it is mercifully rare that sporting events have been attacked in this way. Awful.