See the faces of the two brothers who bombed Boston Marathon !
Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old described as “armed and highly dangerous” is the target of a manhunt covering Boston and the surrounding area, where about one million people live.
His elder brother, Tamelan, 26, was killed by police in a firefight that rocked the suburb of Watertown in the early hours of Friday morning.
The two brothers, who are believed to be ethnic Chechens from southern Russia, are accused of planting the bombs that claimed three lives at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Hours after police released photographs of the Tsarnaevs on Thursday, they “received reports of shots fired” at 10.20pm local time on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, according to a police statement.
Perhaps fearing discovery, the Tsarnaev brothers appear to have shot a police officer multiple times inside his vehicle, killing him instantly.
Police responded by sweeping the MIT campus, which has about 11,000 students. People were ordered to stay indoors and avoid the Stata building, which houses faculty offices and classrooms.
After killing the policeman, however, the brothers escaped from MIT by hijacking a passing car on Third Street in Cambridge. The driver was held at gunpoint for about half an hour and then released unharmed at a petrol station.
Police then located the car and pursued it to Watertown, a suburb on the western edge of Boston about 10 miles from the city centre. During the chase, the Tsarnaevs and the pursuing police officers opened fire, wagingi a fierce gun battle.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old described as “armed and highly dangerous” is the target of a manhunt covering Boston and the surrounding area, where about one million people live.
His elder brother, Tamelan, 26, was killed by police in a firefight that rocked the suburb of Watertown in the early hours of Friday morning.
The two brothers, who are believed to be ethnic Chechens from southern Russia, are accused of planting the bombs that claimed three lives at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Hours after police released photographs of the Tsarnaevs on Thursday, they “received reports of shots fired” at 10.20pm local time on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, according to a police statement.
Perhaps fearing discovery, the Tsarnaev brothers appear to have shot a police officer multiple times inside his vehicle, killing him instantly.
Police responded by sweeping the MIT campus, which has about 11,000 students. People were ordered to stay indoors and avoid the Stata building, which houses faculty offices and classrooms.
After killing the policeman, however, the brothers escaped from MIT by hijacking a passing car on Third Street in Cambridge. The driver was held at gunpoint for about half an hour and then released unharmed at a petrol station.
Police then located the car and pursued it to Watertown, a suburb on the western edge of Boston about 10 miles from the city centre. During the chase, the Tsarnaevs and the pursuing police officers opened fire, wagingi a fierce gun battle.
