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Published 02:31 20 Apr 2013 BST
Updated 22:25 14 Nov 2014 GMT
The teenager believed to be behind the Boston bombings has been captured and taken into custody after escaping from a shootout with police.
The 19-year-old Chechen believed to be behind the Boston bombings has been named as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and according to reports he was found hiding under a boat in the back garden of a house in the Boston suburb of Watertown.
Earlier today Tsarnaev managed to evade police by running on foot after his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed in a stand off.
Here’s what the Boston police department had to say...
The above tweet has been retweeted over 80,000 times at the time of writing.
Monday’s deadly attack killed Martin Richard (8) Krystle Campbell (29) and Lu Lingzi (23) and injured over 170 others. According to Sky News, 17 were seriously injured including the mother and sister of Martin Richard.
The Mayor of Boston Tom Menino summed up the recent news nicely:

UPDATE 2.50am: According to new reports Boston's police commissioner said that the suspect is alive but in a "serious condition" in hospital.

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