Johar Tsarnaev was detained in Boston

The suspect of the attack in Boston Johar Tsarnaev was detained, CNN reports with reference to the Boston police. He took refuge on a boat in the suburbs of Boston Watertaun. Tsarnaev was wounded, after his detention he was taken to the hospital.

The operation to capture Tsarnaev lasted about 15 hours. The owner of the boat discovered traces of blood in the yard and informed the police. The terrain was examined from a helicopter. The suspect himself was found using a thermal imager, a robot was used to penetrate the boat. The police reported on the detention on the official Twitter. The inhabitants of Boston took to the streets and welcomed the operatives with applause.

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After the detention of Tsarnaev, President Barack Obama made the appeal. He praised the actions of the police. The investigation must be carried out carefully, he emphasized. “There are many questions. Why are the young people who grew up and studied here did this. How they prepared it, whether there was any help from the outside,” the president said. The "Russian trace" is not mentioned in Obama.

On the eve of The Boston Globe reported the detention of a man and a woman in the house of the Tsarnaev brothers. According to the publication, the woman resisted. The newspaper later announced the detention of three students in the city of New Bedford, located 80 km from Boston. However, after interrogation, they were released. It was reported that on Wednesday, Tsarnaev visited their house.

On the night of Friday, the Tsarnaev brothers tried to hide the car. At the same time, a shootout occurred, during which a policeman was killed. "The suspect came into our field of vision after a cruel attempt on our officer and robbery, or rather a car theft at a gas station, we have a camera record," said the Boston police commissar Ed Davis at a press conference in Wattertown.

Later, the police managed to block the Tsarnaevs on the territory of the Campus of the Massachusetts Technological Institute. As a result of the shootout, the elder brother Tamerlan was wounded. Johar managed to hide. At the same time, he moved by car of his wounded brother, NBC reported citing representatives of the Boston police. Tamerlan was taken to the hospital, where he soon died.

After the information on the involvement of the Tsarnaev brothers in the terrorist attack in Boston, the press secretary of Ramzan Kadyrov Alvi Karimov said that they were in no way connected with Chechnya, since they moved many years ago. The Tsarnaev family lived in Kazakhstan for many years and emigrated to the United States about ten years ago. “Thus, the faces in question did not live in Chechnya in Chechnya, and if they became“ bad things ”, then this is a question for those who raised them,” he added.

Earlier, the FBI reported that the investigation discovered video recording frames in which two suspects were visible. The surveillance cameras recorded how one of them leaves the bag at the scene. Investigators turned to the public with a request to assist in their identification.

The bombs exploded in Boston, as the investigation established, were placed in pan-rhizas. They contained balls for bearings and nails as damaging elements. Both bombs were placed in dark cloth bags and put on the ground.

On Wednesday, it was reported that the number of victims as a result of the attack reached 183 people. Of these, 23 are in serious condition. There are no Russian citizens among the victims. The personalities of the three dead are established. This is an 8-year-old local resident Martin Richard, 29-year-old Kristle Campbell from Medford and China citizen, whose name is not revealed at the request of relatives. According to various sources, the Chinese was a student or graduate of Boston University.