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Boston bombs suspect 'in custody' | |
(35 minutes later) | |
The teenage suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been taken into custody in a suburb of the city, police have said. | |
Gunfire was heard as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found hiding in a boat in a backyard in Watertown. | |
He had escaped on foot early on Friday after a police shootout that claimed the life of his elder brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev. | He had escaped on foot early on Friday after a police shootout that claimed the life of his elder brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev. |
Three people died and more than 170 were hurt in Monday's bombings. | Three people died and more than 170 were hurt in Monday's bombings. |
A crowd gathered near the scene cheered as the suspect was arrested on Friday night. | |
Boston Police Department tweeted: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody." | |
Explosions heard | |
A law enforcement official told the Associated Press news agency that the suspect was covered in blood. | |
Police helicopters buzzed overhead, and bomb squad vans and ambulances were in position around the house in Franklin Street in Watertown. | |
At one stage a series of about 15 explosions erupted, which local television channels speculated could have been flash-bang grenades used by the authorities. | |
A local resident, Anna Bedirian, told Reuters news agency: "There's about 50 guys there with machine guns and they all got bulletproof vests on, some of them are holding shields. | |
"There are a couple of armoured cars and they're all standing around." | "There are a couple of armoured cars and they're all standing around." |
Friday night's breakthrough came less than an hour after authorities lifted a city-wide order for residents to stay indoors, and reopened the transport system, as the trail appeared to have gone cold. | |
Thousands of Swat team officers scoured the streets all day in a manhunt that virtually shut down the city. | |
Officials had shut down all mass transit and warned close to one million people in Boston and some of its suburbs not to leave their homes. | |
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a college student, had fled on foot following a gun battle that left 200 spent rounds and a car chase in which he and his brother hurled explosives at police, authorities said. | |
The brothers also shot and killed a university policeman and severely wounded another officer late on Thursday, authorities said, hours after the FBI released images of marathon-bombing suspects. | |
Law enforcement officials and family members have identified the Tsarnaev brothers as ethnic Chechens who had been living in America for about a decade. | Law enforcement officials and family members have identified the Tsarnaev brothers as ethnic Chechens who had been living in America for about a decade. |
The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after a request from a foreign government, US law enforcements officials have confirmed. But agents closed the case after finding no reason for concern. | |
Monday's attack killed Martin Richard, aged eight, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lu Lingzi, 23, a postgraduate student from China. | |
Earlier on Friday, the father of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said his son was a second-year medical student in the US and was hoping to be a brain surgeon. | |
But Anzor Tsarnaev told the BBC he believed the secret services had framed his sons. | |
"It was a terrorist attack carefully organised by secret services - I don't know which ones. My son used to go to a mosque, so they once paid us a visit to ask why he is doing that. | |
"Yes, there was such an episode. So they put all the blame on him and shot him. That's it." | |
But Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle of the suspects who lives in Maryland, said he was "ashamed" of their alleged involvement in the bombings. | |
He urged Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to "turn himself in". | |
Asked what the bombers' motives may have been, he replied: "Being losers, hating everyone around them." |