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Photo: US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle attend a memorial service for the victims of the bombings. (Reuters: Brian Snyder)
US president Barack Obama has told a memorial service in Boston that the "evil" marathon bombers will be found, as investigators reportedly focused their efforts on two potential suspects.
Mr Obama used an address to pay tribute to the victims and said Boston's resolve was "the greatest rebuke against whoever committed this heinous act".
"Yes, we will find you, and yes, you will face justice," Mr Obama told a congregation of 2,000 people at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, three days after two bombs killed three people and injured about 180 in a hail of nails and ball bearings.
"We will find you, we will hold you accountable.
If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorise us, it should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it.
US president Barack Obama
"If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorise us, it should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it."
Mr Obama's address came as US media reported that the FBI may be about to release images of persons of interest.
The Boston Globe was reporting that authorities have clear video images of two suspects which they will release later on Thursday (US time).
Other media are reporting the photos are of one suspect and another man wanted for questioning.
The crowded scene along the race course in central Boston was recorded by surveillance cameras and media outlets, providing investigators with significant video footage of the area before and after the two blasts.
"There is some video that has raised the question of those that the FBI would like to speak with," Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano told a Congressional hearing.
But she added that she would not call the "individuals" in the images suspects.
Investigators have so far kept information close to their chest, fearing a repeat of a fiasco which occurred when similar photos, which were released following the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, led to the arrest of an innocent man.
The FBI was yesterday forced to deny reports from CNN, Fox and the Associated Press that a suspect had been arrested.
PHOTO: Bostonians outside church where Obama was giving a memorial speech Photo: Bostonians stand outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross as US president Barack Obama pays tribute to the bombing victims. (Reuters: Jessica Rinaldi)
A line of people several city blocks long formed outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End, about 1.5 kilometres from the bombing site.
Security was heavy around the church, with dozens of city police officers and bomb-sniffing dogs.
Mr Obama told the service of his love for Boston, where he and first lady Michelle Obama lived as students, and declared that "You will run again".
"We may be momentarily knocked off our feet but we'll pick ourselves up, we'll keep on going. We'll finish the race," he said.
Mr Obama, who also met relatives of the dead and recovering victims at Massachusetts General Hospital, said Americans had seen "the face of evil" in the attacks.
He listened attentively to speeches by the city's religious leaders at the service.
Nasser Wedaddy, head of the New England Interfaith Council, spoke for American Muslims and highlighted how the Koran says that killing one person "is like killing all mankind".
He told how he experienced a car bomb while living in Damascus as a child.
"What happened on Monday has shocked and horrified us, but it has also brought us together," he said in a message carefully prepared by Muslim leaders who fear a backlash if the attackers are found to be militant Islamists.
The Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley, read a message from Pope Francis in which he said the people of the city should keep "working together to build an even more just, free and secure society."
Acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma played with a choir of teenagers, some of whom fought back tears as they sang for the service.
Boston has also held emotional tributes to the dead - eight-year-old Martin Richard, restaurant manager Krystle Campbell and Boston University graduate student Lu Lingzi of China.
Doctors at Boston Medical Centre said a second Chinese student caught in the blast had come out of a coma and was improving.
The girl's family was expected in Boston soon.
Police are out in force around the bombing site, which remains closed off for several blocks as they search for evidence.
The service comes the day after the FBI arrested a Mississippi man in connection with letters believed to have contained the deadly poison ricin and sent to federal officials, including Mr Obama.
The FBI said there was no indication of a connection between the ricin letters and the Boston bomb attacks, but they reminded Americans of anthrax mail attacks in the wake of the 9/11 hijackings 12 years ago.
Investigators believe the Boston bombs were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shrapnel.
Ten victims lost limbs, and emergency room doctors reported plucking nails and ball bearings from the wounded.
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