Boston bombings: Police take 3 more suspects in custody
No
further
details
were
released
about
the
arrested
but
the
police
said
that
there
was
no
threat
to
public
safety.
Dzokhar
Tsarnaev,
a
19-year-old
student,
has
been
accused
over
the
blasts.
His
elder
brother,
Tamerlan,
26,
was
killed
during
a
shoot-out
with
the
police
while
they
were
escaping
after
shooting
a
police
officer
dead
at
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology
four
days
after
the
deadly
blasts.
Dzokhar, who was seriously injured at the time of the arrest, has been accused of using a weapon of mass destruction and destruction of property resulting in casualties. He could be sent to the gallows if convicted of the first charge.
During interrogation, Dzokhar said that he and his dead brother were disgusted by the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and sought to defend Islam.
The Tsarnaev family originates from the predominantly Muslim republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. The brothers had been residing in the US for about a decade. Dzokhar is a US citizen while Tamerlan was in the country on a Green Card.
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