'These runners just finished and they don't have legs now'

'These runners just finished and they don't have legs now': Witnesses recount war zone at Boston Marathon as bombs left 26th mile littered with disembodied limbs and 'shoes with flesh still in them'

Witnesses today described the Boston Marathon horror as they spoke about operating theatres that looked like battlefield hospitals as 144 injured victims poured into Boston's hospitals - many with wounds only seen in combat. Reports suggest that the small, homemade explosives were packed with shrapnel that tore off feet, ankles, calves and entire legs as they exploded just outside the crowded finish line. So far ten of the victims are feared to have lost limbs in the worst terror blast in the U.S. since 9/11.