{"id":25489,"date":"2025-11-01T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/25489\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:04:10","slug":"explosion-rocks-harvard-medical-school-two-spotted-fleeing-at-time-of-detonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/25489\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion rocks Harvard Medical School, two spotted fleeing at time of detonation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion rocked a Harvard Medical School building early Saturday morning,\u00a0while Boston police have now released surveillance footage of the two suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The unknown device exploded on the fourth floor of the Goldenson building on the Harvard Longwood Campus\u2019s main quad shortly before 3 a.m.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2025\/11\/2\/explosion-longwood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Harvard Crimson<\/a>\u00a0reported citing authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Two individuals were witnessed running out of the building at the time of the detonation, the outlet said, citing the Harvard University Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified device exploded on the fourth floor of the Goldenson building on the Harvard Longwood Campus\u2019s main quad shortly before 3 a.m. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>An officer with the university failed in an attempt to stop them, before entering the building to check on the alarm, The Boston Globe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/11\/01\/metro\/harvard-medical-school-intentional-explosion\/?p1=BGHeader_BreakingBar_Headline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Police Department released surveillance images of the suspects on Saturday, NBC Boston\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/harvard-medical-school-explosion\/3837968\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Images showed two individuals wearing masks over their faces and hooded sweatshirts.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Fire Department determined the explosion was intentional and conducted a sweep of the building which found no additional devices, according to the Crimson.<\/p>\n<p>Two individuals were seen running out of the building before the device went off. Boston PD<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the overnight explosion at Harvard. Boston PD<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the investigation told The Post the explosive device was not a bomb but declined to further detail the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation is at the scene as part of the investigation, The Crimson reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Police Department and the FBI declined to comment. Meanwhile, Harvard University Police Department could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion rocked a Harvard Medical School building early Saturday morning,\u00a0while Boston police have now released surveillance footage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3531,179,11539,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-25489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-explosions","9":"tag-harvard-university","10":"tag-massachusetts","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}