India News: A pair of bombs that blew up near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people, injured more than a 130, and jarred a nation that will wake up Tuesday struggling to understand why the venerable race was targeted and who is responsible for the attacks.

Targeting the high-profile Boston Marathon, an event involving thousands of runners and many more thousands of onlookers, wrought immediate maximum confusion and panic as two of four planted backpack bombs detonated at the peak of the event, near the finish line.