Boston police officer recalls blasts, shock at bombing

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By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A policeman who was on duty at the Boston Marathon finish line on the day of the deadly 2013 bombing attack recalled in court on Thursday a moment of shock after the blasts when it was unclear who was dead and who was alive. Boston Police Officer Frank Chiola was the first witness to testify on the second day of the federal trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, who is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs on April 15, 2013. Chiola said he had been standing near the finish line when the first bomb went off and heard the second detonate as he was running to the scene. People's faces you couldn't tell who was alive, who was dead," said Chiola, who went on to perform CPR on Krystle Campbell, one of the three people killed by the blasts.

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