Boston Marathon Bombing Trial To Begin Two Years After Deadly Terror Attack
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It has been almost two years since two backpack bombs, made from pressure cookers and stuffed with nails and ball-bearings, were detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others in the most jarring terror attack on US soil since 9/11.
On Wednesday, just two miles from where the bombs went off, the trial of the younger of the two alleged perpetrators is finally set to begin.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, a Kyrgyzstan-born naturalised US citizen from nearby Cambridge, is the younger of the two brothers accused of perpetrating the 2013 attack.
His elder sibling, Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with police four days after the bombing; less than 24 hours later, Dzhokhar was captured by police after a manhunt of unprecedented scale, drenched in blood and near-unconscious, hiding under a boat’s tarpaulin in a backyard in the Boston suburb of Watertown.
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