Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 'bomb suspects'
Chechen brothers named by Boston police hunting bombers after shootout leaves one gunman dead
THE suspects wanted in relation to the Boston Marathon bombing are brothers of Chechen origin, the New York Times reports.
One of the men, identified by the FBI as Suspect 1, is believed to be Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26. He died in hospital from "multiple gunshot wounds and possible blast injuries", after a confrontation with police this morning. Authorities are investigating whether he had an improvised explosive device strapped to his body, law enforcement officials said.
The other man, Suspect 2, who is still on the run, is believed to be Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, aged 19, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It is understood that both men lived in Turkey before arriving in the US about a year ago.
Chechnya is located in the south-eastern part of Europe in the North Caucasus mountains. The country has "been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars", says NDTV.
The hunt for the younger Tsarnaev brother followed a night of chaotic violence in Boston. It was triggered by the murder of a campus guard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot while sitting in his car after responding to a disturbance. The shooting was followed by a carjacking and a confrontation between two men and police in the nearby district of Watertown.
Watertown residents reported hearing explosions and gunfire. A large part of the area is still in lockdown and people are being told to stay in their homes.
Colonel Tim Alben of the Massachusetts State Police said the suspects believed to have killed the MIT guard are thought to be "the same individuals that were responsible for the bombing on Monday at the Boston Marathon. We believe that they’re responsible for the death of an MIT police officer and the shooting of an MBTA officer."
He confirmed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the man shown wearing a black hat in a photograph of the two marathon bombing suspects, was dead. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the man wearing a white hat in the picture, was still being sought by police. ·



















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One piece of bad information in here - both men had been living continuously in the United States for at least 5 years. They are not recent arrivals.
At least you got the names right this time, but still: several inaccuracies here. Did you lay off your fact checker?
Russia today refers to the family as "fleeing to the US in 2002 "!
"Fleeing" has connotations.
Hop someone got fired over this. The least you can do is apologize to the Tripathi family.
Apology to Tripathy Family immediately otherwise your sale & image is at stake from readers and also compensate them to spoil their name & India
You need a fact checker. This isn't a news site - it's garbage.
He was a POLICE OFFICER, not a "guard!"
Nice edit of the names. Google still refers to Mulegeta and Tripathi with this link. Buried news much?
Under which immigration law would either of these brothers beat such a rapid path to citizenship? Especially when one hears of the many youngsters brought here as infants, law abiding and hard working, for whom this status is still only a mirage. And one of them was a second year medical student, too! Some people have all the luck, what!