Boston Marathon Runner:'

Police Said Boston

Explosions Were

Training Exercise'

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April 15th, 2013
Updated 04/15/2013 at 8:07 pm

Boston marathon runner Alastair Stevenson says that as the explosions erupted at the Boston Marathon this morning, he was told by police over the loud speaker that the events were 'just a drill'. 

boston marathon drillStevenson, speaking with various news sources at the event, told one Alabama publication about what he witnessed during the race. While managing to finish the race before the explosions were in range of him or his bystander wife, Stevenson revealed some interesting information that makes sense of some Boston Globe tweets from earlier regarding bomb drills — which had been going on around the time of the actual explosions themselves and therefore may have confused police and emergency response.

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