Police have detained the surviving Boston bombing suspect after he was found in a boat in backyard following a huge manhunt that left the city virtually paralysed.
Gunfire was earlier heard in the neighbourhood of Watertown where Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, 19, was hiding.
Police surrounded the boat and a dramatic stand-off ensued.
"CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody," Boston police said on its Twitter account.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken away to applause from residents near the scene.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino said on Twitter: "We got him".
Dzhokhar had been on the run since his 26-year-old brother and fellow suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shoot-out with police in the early hours of Friday.
About 10 minutes before the muffled gunfire was heard, authorities had lifted a lockdown as police combed the streets for the suspect.
But a short time after relaxed the stay-indoors order, police reinstated it - just minutes before gunshots rang out.
The brothers moved to the US a decade ago from a Russian region near Chechnya and had been living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as legal permanent residents.
The shoot-out in Watertown between both suspects and dozens of armed officers came after Sean Collier, a 26-year-old campus policeman, was shot dead in his vehicle at the nearby Massachusetts Institute Of Technology.
The suspects are believed to have killed the MIT campus policeman before carjacking a black Mercedes SUV, taking its owner hostage and driving off towards Watertown with police in pursuit.
On their way, the hostage was dumped at a petrol station after around 30 minutes, before the shoot-out in Watertown.
During the shoot-out, Tamerlan Tsarnaev is said to have run at police and was shot at and arrested.
He later died in hospital despite attempts to resuscitate him.
According to NBC, police ran over him because he was wearing an IED (improvised explosive device). However this has not been confirmed by police or other officials.
Several homes in Watertown suffered extensive damage from the bomb blast and were caught in the crossfire in the shoot-out.
The brothers' father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told reporters in Russia that he believed his sons had been framed and described the killing of Tamerlan as "cowardly".
Maret Tsarnaeva, the men's aunt, said Tamerlan had recently became a devout Muslim who prayed five times a day.
Speaking to reporters at her home in Toronto, Canada, she also said the older brother was married and had a daughter in the US.
Gunfire was earlier heard in the neighbourhood of Watertown where Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, 19, was hiding.
Police surrounded the boat and a dramatic stand-off ensued.
"CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody," Boston police said on its Twitter account.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken away to applause from residents near the scene.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino said on Twitter: "We got him".
Dzhokhar had been on the run since his 26-year-old brother and fellow suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shoot-out with police in the early hours of Friday.
About 10 minutes before the muffled gunfire was heard, authorities had lifted a lockdown as police combed the streets for the suspect.
But a short time after relaxed the stay-indoors order, police reinstated it - just minutes before gunshots rang out.
The brothers moved to the US a decade ago from a Russian region near Chechnya and had been living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as legal permanent residents.
The shoot-out in Watertown between both suspects and dozens of armed officers came after Sean Collier, a 26-year-old campus policeman, was shot dead in his vehicle at the nearby Massachusetts Institute Of Technology.
The suspects are believed to have killed the MIT campus policeman before carjacking a black Mercedes SUV, taking its owner hostage and driving off towards Watertown with police in pursuit.
On their way, the hostage was dumped at a petrol station after around 30 minutes, before the shoot-out in Watertown.
During the shoot-out, Tamerlan Tsarnaev is said to have run at police and was shot at and arrested.
He later died in hospital despite attempts to resuscitate him.
According to NBC, police ran over him because he was wearing an IED (improvised explosive device). However this has not been confirmed by police or other officials.
Several homes in Watertown suffered extensive damage from the bomb blast and were caught in the crossfire in the shoot-out.
The brothers' father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told reporters in Russia that he believed his sons had been framed and described the killing of Tamerlan as "cowardly".
Maret Tsarnaeva, the men's aunt, said Tamerlan had recently became a devout Muslim who prayed five times a day.
Speaking to reporters at her home in Toronto, Canada, she also said the older brother was married and had a daughter in the US.
Source: SkyNews
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