太混乱了，警方刚否认波士顿爆炸案逮捕嫌疑人

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据报道 警方刚刚否认逮捕一名波士顿马拉松赛爆炸案的嫌疑人。他们早前曾表示有“实质性”的进展情况。

Confusion over arrest reports in Boston bombing

Significant progress,' but no arrest in bombing

CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 2:44 p.m. Wednesday]

Investigators in Washington and Boston denied Wednesday that anarrest had been made in the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Theyhad earlier said there was "substantial" progress in the case.

[Breaking news update at 2:36 p.m. Wednesday]

There is conflicting information as to whether someone has beenarrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. A federallaw enforcement source told CNN's Fran Townsend that someone wasarrested. But later, two senior administration officials andanother federal official told Townsend that there had been amisunderstanding among officials and that no one has beenarrested.

yahoo news:

Boston Marathon investigation: FBI has suspect, authorities say noarrest has been made

Authorities have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathonbombings and denied news reports that an arrest had been made inthe attack.

The Associated Press and the Boston Globe reported a suspect hadbeen arrested and was en route to the Moakley Federal Courthouse inSouth Boston. But the Boston Police Department and the USAttorney's office in Boston denied those reports on Wednesdayafternoon, saying no arrest had been made. CNN also reported nosuspect was in custody, backtracking from its earlier report that asuspect had been nabbed.

Authorities combed through video footage to find an image of "asuspect carrying, and perhaps dropping, a black bag at the secondbombing scene," The Boston Globe reported. CBS News correspondentBob Orr reported that the video showed a man in a black jackettalking on his cell phone "placing a black bag at the second bombsite outside of the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street and thenleaving the area before that explosion." Police used the time stampon the video to scan all the calls made in the area and track himdown.

The FBI is scheduled to hold a press conference at 5 p.m. and isexpected to announce the news then. CNN reported that thebreakthrough in the investigation came from analyzing departmentstore surveillance video and video from a news station.

An FBI spokesman in Boston and a spokeswoman for Boston MayorTom Menino declined to comment on the reports to Yahoo News.

.This image from a Federal Bureau of Investigation andDepartment of Homeland Security joint bulletin issued to lawenforcement and obtained by The Associated Press, shows the remainsof a pressure ... more

This image from a Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department ofHomeland Security joint bulletin issued to law enforcement andobtained by The Associated Press, shows the remains of a pressurecooker that the FBI says was part of one of the bombs that explodedduring the Boston Marathon. The FBI says it has evidence thatindicates one of the bombs was contained in a pressure cooker withnails and ball bearings, and it was hidden in a backpack.

Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Share to Twitter Close.Previous image..Next image.Description Toggle .......0 - -5 / 40The twin bombs, which were detonated close to the finish line ofthe Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, sent 176 people to thehospital and killed three, including an eight-year-old boy. 

Several of the injured needed amputations.

Police have said the two bombs were fashioned from debris-filledpressure cookers and stuffed in black bags. They were located about100 yards apart.

A Boston-area federal agent told Yahoo News that he suspectsthere will be more than one arrest in the case eventually.

“To carry one heavy bag in is one thing, but a single suspecthaving two bags would have stood out,” the law enforcement sourcetold Yahoo News.

--Holly Bailey and Jason Sickles contributed to this report from Boston.