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| Boston bombs: Memorial for slain officer Sean Collier | Boston bombs: Memorial for slain officer Sean Collier |
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| Thousands of mourners are holding a memorial for a university police officer killed during the hunt for the Boston marathon bombing suspects. | Thousands of mourners are holding a memorial for a university police officer killed during the hunt for the Boston marathon bombing suspects. |
| US Vice-President Joe Biden is to address the service in memory of 26-year-old Sean Collier at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | US Vice-President Joe Biden is to address the service in memory of 26-year-old Sean Collier at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| As many as 10,000 students, staff and police officials from around the country are expected to attend. | As many as 10,000 students, staff and police officials from around the country are expected to attend. |
| Authorities say Collier was killed by the brothers suspected of the bombing. | Authorities say Collier was killed by the brothers suspected of the bombing. |
| He had worked for the prestigious university's police department for more than a year and was involved in campus activities, in addition to his role as an officer. | He had worked for the prestigious university's police department for more than a year and was involved in campus activities, in addition to his role as an officer. |
| 'Completely genuine' | |
| Queues of mourners stretched for about half a mile, an hour before Wednesday's ceremony started. | Queues of mourners stretched for about half a mile, an hour before Wednesday's ceremony started. |
| They made their way through tight security, including metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs. | They made their way through tight security, including metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs. |
| During the ceremony, Collier's brothers thanked police officers and others for their support. | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Chief John DiFava remembered how the young officer had once asked to volunteer at a homeless shelter. | |
| "He hoped to 'maybe deal with issues before they became problems'," Mr DiFava said. | |
| Collier was laid to rest in a private funeral on Tuesday. | Collier was laid to rest in a private funeral on Tuesday. |
| "He is the one of the nicest people that I've ever met," Kelly Daumit, an engineering student who hiked with Collier as part of a university social club, told AP news agency. | |
| "Everything people are saying about him is completely genuine; it's not because of what happened." | |
| Collier was shot dead in his car on 18 April, three days after the bombing of the marathon. | |
| Suspects' parents 'interviewed' | |
| The shooting led to a huge manhunt that ended in the death of suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the wounding of his younger brother and alleged accomplice, Dzhokhar. | The shooting led to a huge manhunt that ended in the death of suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the wounding of his younger brother and alleged accomplice, Dzhokhar. |
| In a court hearing on Monday before a federal magistrate judge in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged at his hospital bedside with crimes that could result in the death penalty if convicted. | In a court hearing on Monday before a federal magistrate judge in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged at his hospital bedside with crimes that could result in the death penalty if convicted. |
| US officials say the ethnic Chechen brothers planted and detonated two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston marathon on 15 April, killing three people and injuring more than 260. Ten people lost limbs in the bombing. | |
| US investigators are in contact with the bombing suspects' parents in southern Russia, an American embassy official said on Wednesday. | |
| An unnamed official told the AP news agency that US investigators were working with the Russian security services, the FSB. | |
| He would not say how long the Americans planned to stay in Dagestan, a region in the southern area of the country. | |
| The father was quoted as telling the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that both parents planned to fly to the US on Thursday. |