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Eight-year-old Martin Richard died near the 26-mile marker of the Boston marathon - the one dedicated to the young victims of the Newtown massacre. The lad was among the three dead and more than 170 injured when two bombs went off within seconds of each other on a sunny Monday afternoon near the finish line of the world s oldest international foot race. This is how bad this is, wrote Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen. I went out on Monday night and bumped into some fire-fighters I know. They said one of the dead was an 8-year-old boy from Dorchester who had gone out to hug his dad after he crossed the finish line. The dad walked on; the boy went back to the s
stanley cup idewalk to join his mom and his little sister
stanley cup . And then the bomb went off. The boy was killed. His sister s leg was blown off. His mother was badly injured. Just days earlier, organisers of the Boston marathon said they were dedicating the 26-mile marker to the 20 children and six educators shot and killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, four months ago. Those children - gunned down by a 20-year-old with an assault rifle
stanley cup who had earlier killed his mother and who went on to take his own life - were six and seven years old. Marathons are 26.2 miles long, or a tad under 42.2kms, so the 26-mile marker would have been just 1,056 feet nearly 322 meters from the finish line. Overnight and into Tuesday, surgeons performed amputations on many of the injured, although an overal Wpru Four tourists die in hot-air balloon crash in China
French aviation authorities have canceled half of the flights into and out of Paris Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport until 1:00 pm 1200 GMT on Friday because of freezing winter conditions. HT Image The latest announcement meant that some 2,000 passengers would be forced to stay overnight at the airport, transport minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet said o
crocs n early Friday morning. Forecasters were expecting below-freezing conditions this morning and the airport was having trouble getting hold of enough glycol, the liquid used to de-ice aircraft, aviation officials said in a statement late on Thursday. Civil aviation officials had therefore asked all airlines to reduce their flights by 50%, the statement added. Aeroports de Paris ADP , the company running the capital s airports, announced on
air max 1 Thursday that airlines had already been asked to cut flights by 20% delaying 60 flights out of Roissy. The de-icing process had been taking 25 minutes instead of the usual 14, because of the conditions, said ADP. Charles de Gaulle airport had only just cleared the b
af1 acklog from the delays caused earlier in the week by the freezing conditions, which on Monday saw 3,000 passengers forced to spend a second night sleeping there. Kosciusko-Morizet and junior transport minister Thierry Mariani visited the airport on late Thursday to see the situation for themselves, their offices said. Officials were setting up camp-beds for the passengers, Kosciusko-Morizet said. The delays earlier t
