Two explosions blasted at the Boston Marathon Monday as runners crossed the finish line. Reuters reports that at least two people were killed and 23 injured on a day when tens of thousands of people fill the streets to watch one of the world’s best-known marathons.
“Witnesses said two explosions hit as spectators were cheering on people finishing the Boston Marathon, which was first run in 1897,” Reuters reported.
A Christian businessman who was in a restaurant at the finish line of the Boston Marathon saw a little boy’s leg blown off and then tried to comfort other restaurant patrons who were screaming in the aftermath of the bombing of the Boston Marathon.
Bobby Inello, who is also a member of Benny Hinn’s board of directors, was with a friend at a front table of a posh restaurant called Abe and Louie’s at 793 Boylston Street in Boston when two bombs went off.
As patrons and restaurant staff crowded the kitchen to get out into an alley behind the restaurant, it was total pandemonium, Inello said. “I kept calling ‘Jesus, Jesus,’ and telling the people to stay calm and ‘We’ll be okay,'” Inello told Charisma News, adding that the police kept telling people to run toward the Charles River and away from the location of the bombings.
Still, he went back to the restaurant to find his friend Michael, who was inconsolable because of seeing the little boy lose his leg. There was very little time to minister to anyone because the police said to keep running. People were being trampled.
The restaurant doors had been open so patrons could see the end of the race as the winners came across the finish line. They heard a first explosion, which they knew was huge—either a car or building being blown up. Everyone stood to look to see what was happening when the second explosion went off moments later, shaking the restaurant and sending a shower of glass, debris and thick black smoke on them.
“I wasn’t at 9/11. I don’t want to say it was that bad. But we knew it was a terrorist attack and I know how those people must have felt.”
Inello said seeing the blood and pandemonium was “totally nauseating.”
As people ran toward the Charles River, they were cut off from where their cars were parked in another area. Cell-phone reception was interrupted by authorities so that another bomb couldn’t be detonated. That meant people couldn’t text or call loved ones.
Inello, the president of several Boston companies including Covenant Merchant Processing, is fine. He gave Charisma News an exclusive interview. More details will be reported soon.
