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| Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted | Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted |
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| Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been indicted on charges of killing four people and using a weapon of mass destruction. | Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been indicted on charges of killing four people and using a weapon of mass destruction. |
| The 19-year-old faces 30 charges linked to the 15 April blasts, which killed three and injured more than 260 others. | |
| A fourth victim, a policeman, was shot dead by him and his brother during the hunt for them, say federal prosecutors. | A fourth victim, a policeman, was shot dead by him and his brother during the hunt for them, say federal prosecutors. |
| Seventeen charges could bring life in prison or even the death penalty, US prosecutors said. | |
| The accused's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was killed in a shoot-out with police days after the twin blasts. | |
| Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was injured in the manhunt and has been held in a prison hospital near Boston since his capture on 19 April. | |
| The explosives used in the attack at the race finish line were described as pressure-cooker bombs, packed with shrapnel. | |
| The brothers are from a family of ethnic Chechen Muslims from Russia and had been living in the US for about a decade. |