Bombing suspects are from Chechnya

By The Associated Press

Posted 7:23AM on Friday 19th April 2013 ( 12 years ago )

WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing identified to The Associated Press as coming from the Russian region near Chechnya killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large Friday, authorities said.

A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass.

Two law enforcement officials told AP that Tsarnaev and the other suspect who was not immediately identified have been living legally in the U.S. for at least one year.

Russia's North Caucasus region has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars in Chechnya.

The two suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing are shown In this FBI photo from Associated Press. Police are looking for the man in the white cap; the other man was killed in a shootout with authorities.

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