BBC News Summary 2013.04.16 （音频+文本）

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Police in the United States say that at least 2 people have been killed and 23 injured in 2 powerful explosions close to the fishing line of the Boston Marathon. The blasts took place seconds apart as hundreds of runners were ending the race, cheered on by a large crowd. Footage from the site showed the streets splattered with blood and strewed with debris.  

President Obama has said the authorities don’t know who carried out the Boston attack or why. But in an address to the nation from the White House, he promised that whoever was responsible would be held to account.  

The BBC security correspondent says “a lesson from past attacks, it is risky to jump to early conclusions about who might be responsible.”  

The area surrounding the site of the explosions has been searched, but police say no further explosive devices have been found so far. The Boston police commissioner Edward Davis said people should stay at home and not gathering crowds. Security has been stepped up to key sides across the country.

In other news, elections board in Venezuela has formally acclaimed Nicolas Maduro as the winner of the presidential vote despite calls by the opposition for a re-count to be held. The opposition candidate Henrique Capriles had called for national protest in the event that Mr. Maduro was declared the victim.

Police in Santiago have arrested Karim Wade the son of the former president. He is suspected of illegally amassing around 1.4 billion dollars during his father’s 12-year in office.  

The wife of former Madagascar’s former leader Marc Ravalomanana has announced she will run for president in the election scheduled in July. Lalao Ravalomanana’s candidacy was decided at a meeting of his part in South Africa while her husband lives in exile.

The prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the United States has been won this year by a novelist in North Korea. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson tells a tale of a boy who grows up in a state orphanage run by his father but later falls of the authorities.