{"id":2417,"date":"2013-04-20T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T04:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/second-boston-bomb-suspect-arrested-critically-injured\/"},"modified":"2013-04-20T04:42:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T04:42:11","slug":"second-boston-bomb-suspect-arrested-critically-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/second-boston-bomb-suspect-arrested-critically-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Boston bomb suspect arrested critically injured"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An ethnic Chechen teenager suspected of conducting the Boston marathon bombings is in a serious condition and being treated in hospital after his dramatic capture, police said Friday.<\/p>\n

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house in the Boston suburb of Watertown, wounded and weary after a gun battle with police overnight in which his accomplice brother was killed.<\/p>\n

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said that with Tsarnaev’s arrest, “the citizens of the city of Boston and this area can be confident that the threat has been removed.”<\/p>\n

Police, state troopers and FBI agents zeroed in on the boat on Franklin Street after a man went out of the house and saw blood on the boat, Davis said.<\/p>\n

The man then opened the tarp covering the boat and saw a man covered with blood inside, and called police.<\/p>\n

“I’m so happy because the people in the greater Boston area will be able to sleep tonight because of the work of these individuals,” Boston Mayor Thomas Merino told reporters, in a tribute to police and law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n

Davis said a perimeter was set up around the boat before a major operation ended a drama that started with the twin bombing at the marathon on Monday.<\/p>\n

“Over the course of the next hour or so, we exchanged gunfire with the suspect who was inside the boat,” he said.<\/p>\n

“And ultimately, the hostage rescue team of the FBI made an entry into the boat and removed the suspect who was still alive in the boat.”<\/p>\n

The two main suspects in the bombings that killed three people and wounded about 180 others — Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan — were located after a police officer was killed and another wounded during a violent spree overnight that began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s campus.<\/p>\n

Davis said more than 200 rounds of gunfire were exchanged during that incident, and that the two men had hurled improvised explosive devices and handmade hand grenades at officers.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old elder brother died of bullet wounds and injuries from explosives strapped to his body, a hospital doctor said.<\/p>\n

The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ignited noisy celebrations on the streets of Boston.<\/p>\n

Crowds lining streets cheered and applauded police as they packed up equipment and drove away from the house in the suburban town of Watertown where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was detained.<\/p>\n

There were also festivities around Boylston Street in central Boston where bombs were left at the marathon finish line on Monday, killing three people and wounding 180.<\/p>\n

“Let’s Go Boston” and “USA, USA” crowds chanted, with some people climbing on to car roofs while others danced in the streets.<\/p>\n

“It has been so tense all week,” said neighbor Susan Nolan. “I was so nervous when I heard that the police were planning to pull out and he had not been caught,” Nolan added.<\/p>\n

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