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Eerie Images From An Empty Boston And Cambridge

By Teresa Gorman
Published April 19, 2013 at 11:36 AM CDT

Images collected from social media show veritable ghost towns Friday after local residents were ordered to "shelter in place" during a manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

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