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| The Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, police said on Thursday, after a week-long search for a community willing to take the body. Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester, east of Boston, and was now entombed. Police did not specify where the body was taken. | The Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, police said on Thursday, after a week-long search for a community willing to take the body. Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester, east of Boston, and was now entombed. Police did not specify where the body was taken. |
| "As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased," Worcester police said in a statement. | "As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased," Worcester police said in a statement. |
| Tsarnaev's body had been at the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors. Its director, Peter Stefan, had said that he could not find a community willing to take the body, including Cambridge, where the family had lived for a decade. Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, had custody of the body. | Tsarnaev's body had been at the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors. Its director, Peter Stefan, had said that he could not find a community willing to take the body, including Cambridge, where the family had lived for a decade. Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, had custody of the body. |
| Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife, had wanted his body turned over to his side of the family, which claimed it. Nineteen days after his death, cemeteries were still refusing to take his remains and government officials deflected questions about where he could be buried. On Wednesday, police in Worcester pleaded for a resolution, saying they were spending tens of thousands of dollars to protect the funeral home where the body was being kept, amid protests. | Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife, had wanted his body turned over to his side of the family, which claimed it. Nineteen days after his death, cemeteries were still refusing to take his remains and government officials deflected questions about where he could be buried. On Wednesday, police in Worcester pleaded for a resolution, saying they were spending tens of thousands of dollars to protect the funeral home where the body was being kept, amid protests. |
| An expert in US burial law said the resistance to Tsarnaev's burial was unprecedented in a country that has always found a way to put to rest its notorious killers, from Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated president John F Kennedy in 1963, to Adam Lanza, who shot dead 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school last year. | An expert in US burial law said the resistance to Tsarnaev's burial was unprecedented in a country that has always found a way to put to rest its notorious killers, from Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated president John F Kennedy in 1963, to Adam Lanza, who shot dead 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school last year. |
| In Russia, officials would not comment after Tsarnaev's mother said authorities would not allow her son's body into the country, so she could bury him in her native Dagestan. | In Russia, officials would not comment after Tsarnaev's mother said authorities would not allow her son's body into the country, so she could bury him in her native Dagestan. |
| Meanwhile, Russell continues to face questions from federal authorities and has hired a criminal lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases. Russell added the New York lawyer Joshua Dratel to her legal team, her attorney Amato DeLuca said on Wednesday. Dratel has represented a number of terrorism suspects in federal courts and military commissions, including the Guantánamo Bay detainee David Hicks, who attended an al-Qaida-linked training camp in Afghanistan. Dratel's "unique, specialized experience" will help ensure that Russell "can assist in the ongoing investigation in the most constructive way possible," DeLuca said in a statement. | Meanwhile, Russell continues to face questions from federal authorities and has hired a criminal lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases. Russell added the New York lawyer Joshua Dratel to her legal team, her attorney Amato DeLuca said on Wednesday. Dratel has represented a number of terrorism suspects in federal courts and military commissions, including the Guantánamo Bay detainee David Hicks, who attended an al-Qaida-linked training camp in Afghanistan. Dratel's "unique, specialized experience" will help ensure that Russell "can assist in the ongoing investigation in the most constructive way possible," DeLuca said in a statement. |
| He said Russell, who has not been charged with any crime, will continue to meet investigators as "part of a series of meetings over many hours where she has answered questions". | He said Russell, who has not been charged with any crime, will continue to meet investigators as "part of a series of meetings over many hours where she has answered questions". |
| Providence-based DeLuca and Miriam Weizenbaum have been representing Russell, who is from Rhode Island. They specialize in civil cases such as personal injury law. An FBI spokeswoman wouldn't comment when asked on Wednesday whether Russell was co-operating. DeLuca has said that Russell had no reason to suspect her husband and his brother before the bombings which hit the finish line of the Boston Marathon on 15 April. Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia and living in Massachusetts, are accused of planting two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs which killed three people and injured about 260. | Providence-based DeLuca and Miriam Weizenbaum have been representing Russell, who is from Rhode Island. They specialize in civil cases such as personal injury law. An FBI spokeswoman wouldn't comment when asked on Wednesday whether Russell was co-operating. DeLuca has said that Russell had no reason to suspect her husband and his brother before the bombings which hit the finish line of the Boston Marathon on 15 April. Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia and living in Massachusetts, are accused of planting two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs which killed three people and injured about 260. |
| Dzhokhar, who was captured on 19 April, while hiding in a tarp-covered boat outside a house in a Boston suburb, was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill. The brothers' mother has said the charges against them are lies. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a getaway attempt after a gun battle with police. His body was released by the state medical examiner 1 May. | Dzhokhar, who was captured on 19 April, while hiding in a tarp-covered boat outside a house in a Boston suburb, was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill. The brothers' mother has said the charges against them are lies. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a getaway attempt after a gun battle with police. His body was released by the state medical examiner 1 May. |
| In Washington, the first in a series of hearings to review the government's initial response to the bombing began on Thursday. The hearings on Capitol Hill, which address what information authorities received about the brothers before the bombings and whether they handled it correctly, come less than three weeks after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's arrest. | In Washington, the first in a series of hearings to review the government's initial response to the bombing began on Thursday. The hearings on Capitol Hill, which address what information authorities received about the brothers before the bombings and whether they handled it correctly, come less than three weeks after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's arrest. |
| The Boston police commissioner, Edward Davis, testified that FBI agents did not tell police they had receiving warnings from Russia's government in 2011 about Tamerlan Tsarnaev and had performed a cursory investigation. Davis said that none of four people he had assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force was aware that the FBI investigated the vague warning, found nothing and closed the file. | The Boston police commissioner, Edward Davis, testified that FBI agents did not tell police they had receiving warnings from Russia's government in 2011 about Tamerlan Tsarnaev and had performed a cursory investigation. Davis said that none of four people he had assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force was aware that the FBI investigated the vague warning, found nothing and closed the file. |
| The FBI and CIA separately received vague warnings from Russia's government that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother were religious militants. | The FBI and CIA separately received vague warnings from Russia's government that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother were religious militants. |
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