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Edge BostonA Seattle-area athlete needed medical treatment Tuesday after small bombs were thrown onto the track at the start of a relay run at the World Outgames. This attack is the second to take place against on attendees since the global LGBT multi-sport event opened last weekend. Three men have been detained as a result of the incidents and police said they are looking for a fourth suspect.
It was not known at press time whether the attacks were related or what the motives were, but police were treating the weekend incident, in which two Danish men reportedly punched and kicked three men from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway in a gay-bar district in Copenhagen as they returned from the opening ceremony on Town Hall Square.
Dean Koga of the Seattle Frontrunners team was in the starting block for the 4x200-meter relay on Tuesday afternoon in the newly opened Østerbro Stadium when one or two explosive devices were hurled over a wall at the athletes on the track. No other athletes were injured. Koga’s right hand was injured and required medical personnel to remove shrapnel and stitching, according to his teammates. Koga told his teammates he expected to be able to run in the meet Wednesday.
Less than an hour after the first bomb, another explosion rocked the stadium and a man was seen fleeing a nearby church building, believed to be the site where the bombs were thrown from. Police said they apprehended a 31-year-old Danish man and were looking for a second suspect.
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