Habari
zilizotufikia hivi punde zinasema yule mtuhumiwa wa kwanza wa milipuko
ya Boston Marathon (pichani) ameuwawa baada ya kutupiana risasi na
polisi sasa hivi FBI wanamtafuta mtuhumiwa wapili aliyekua amevaa kofia
nyeupe na wakaazi wa Watertown, Massachusetts wameambia wasitoke ndani
ya nyumba wala kwenda kazini leo na hata hawaruhusiwi kumfungulia mtu
yeyote ispokua polisi tu. tutazidi kuwahabarisha habari zaidi.
BOSTON—A
late-night police chase and shootout has ended with one marathon
bombing suspect dead and another on the run here, Boston Police
commissioner Ed Davis said early Friday morning. One police officer was
killed and a transit officer seriously wounded during the pursuit.
Federal
agents swarmed neighboring Watertown after local police were involved in
a car chase and shootout with the men identified Thursday by the FBI as
Suspect 1 and Suspect 2. During the pursuit, officers could be heard on
police radio traffic describing the men as having grenades and other
explosives.
The
made-for-movie mayhem began at approximately 10:30 p.m. Thursday when
police said the bombing suspects robbed a 7-Eleven store in Cambridge,
police said. Minutes later, an MIT campus officer responding to the call
was shot and killed. The terror suspects then fled in a stolen
Mercedes-Benz, but were quickly spotted in Watertown where they
exchanged dozens of rounds of gunfire with patrol officers.
Suspect 1 was shot
by police and brought to Beth Israel Medical Center. He arrived at the
hospital under cardiac arrest with multiple gunshot wounds and
blast-like injuries to his chest. The second suspect fled on foot,
leading to a tense manhunt that is still underway at this hour.
"We believe this
to be a terrorist," Davis told reporters at a hastily arranged press
conference in Watertown. "We believe this to be a man who has come here
to kill people. We need to get him into custody."
A transit officer was seriously wounded during the exchange of gunfire, officials said.
The FBI has yet to
publicly confirm a connection between the events in Watertown and the
twin explosions that killed 3 people and injured 170 others at the
Boston Marathon on Monday. But according to Boston Police, the suspect
who remained at large was the "one in the white hat" seen in the photos
released by the bureau on Thursday.
In a radio alert
sent issued to fellow officers, the suspect was described as a "white
male with dark complexion or a Middle Eastern male with thick curly hair
wearing a charcoal gray hooded sweatshirt ... possibly with an assault
rifle and explosives." Police in Watertown, Newton, Brighton and
Cambridge were put on high alert as the suspect was said to be armed
with a "long gun."
"We are aware of
the law enforcement activity in the greater Boston area," Boston FBI
spokesman Greg Comcowich said in a statement to Yahoo News. "The
situation is ongoing. We are working with local authorities to determine
what happened."
Worried residents
in Watertown, a suburb about 10 miles from downtown Boston, were ordered
to stay indoors and turn off their cell phones out of fear that they
could trigger improvised explosive devices.
Also
on Thursday morning, the U.S. attorney's office for the District of
Massachusetts sent out a tweet encouraging anyone with information to
submit clues, video or photos to an FBI Web page dedicated to the
investigation.
President Barack
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama flew to Boston on Thursday to attend
an interfaith memorial service and visit hospitalized victims. "Every
one of us has been touched by this attack on your beloved city. Every
one us stands with you," Obama told the crowd attending the church
service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston.
There, Obama
honored the families of those killed in the blast—Martin Richard, 8, of
Dorchester; Krystle Campbell, 29, of Medford; and Lingzi Lu, 23, a
Boston University graduate student from China.
The improvised
explosive devices were located about 100 yards apart in the bustling
Copley Square area. Several blocks of Boston's downtown remain closed as
authorities comb the area for evidence.
To contact the FBI with information, call 1-800-CALL-FBI or online at bostonmarathontips.fbi.gov.
Yahoo News' Beth Fouhy contributed reporting from New York.
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