Police kill Boston bomb suspect, hunt for second
US: Police killed one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects in a
shootout early Friday and pursued a chaotic street-to-street manhunt for
his accomplice, officials said.
Several Boston suburbs were put under effective lockdown and public
transport was suspended throughout the region as police chased an “armed
and dangerous... terrorist... who has come here to kill people.”
The two men, dubbed “Suspect One” and “Suspect Two” by the FBI, led
police special forces on a violent cavalcade that left inhabitants of
towns around Boston cowering in their homes as gunfire and explosions
erupted through the night.
One police officer was killed and another wounded in the operation,
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said. Davis also confirmed that
Suspect One had been killed.
The man, whose identity has not been released, died in the hospital
after being hit with bullets and injured by an explosion, a doctor at
Beth Israel hospital told reporters.
Police told inhabitants of Watertown and nearby towns to stay home as
they hunted the second man believed to have planted the bombs that
killed three people and injured about 180 at the Boston Marathon on
Monday.
The governor also suspended all public transit services through the
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
The surviving fugitive was “armed and dangerous,” Davis said. “We
believe this to be a terrorist, we believe this to be a man who has come
here to kill people,” the police chief told reporters.
Police said the first suspect had explosives on his body, and there
were fears the second suspect still at large was also strapped with
bombs.
The suspects first tried to rob a convenience store in Cambridge,
across the river from Boston, Davis said.
They then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where one
campus police officer was shot several times and died, the commissioner
added. The pair then hijacked a Mercedes car and eventually let the
driver out in Watertown, which is close to MIT, Davis added.
The chase went on through Watertown where the two were seen throwing
explosives out of the car, local media said, citing police reports.
Blasts and gunfire were heard in several districts.
During a shooutout, one wanted man was hit and died later in
hospital, Davis said. Another police officer was also wounded. The
second suspect, who has been shown in pictures wearing a white baseball
cap, escaped.
MIT students were kept in a lockdown for three hours after the
shooting on campus. Police with rifles flooded the streets, and search
helicopters patrolled the skies.
AFP
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