20 April 2013 Last updated at 02:15

Boston bombs suspect 'in custody'

Tamerlan Tsarnaev (L), 26, and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19

Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left), 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19

The teenage suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been taken into custody in a suburb of the city, police have said.

Gunfire was heard as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was reportedly found hiding in a boat in a backyard in Watertown.

He had escaped on foot early on Friday after a police shootout that claimed the life of his elder brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Three people died and more than 170 were hurt in Monday's bombings.

Boston Police Department tweeted: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."

Explosions heard

A law enforcement official told the Associated Press news agency that the suspect was covered in blood.

Who are the Tsarnaev brothers?

Suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Sons of Chechen refugees from the troubled Caucasus region of southern Russia
Family is thought to have moved to the US in 2001, from Russian republic of Dagestan
They lived in the Massachusetts town of Cambridge, home to Harvard University
Dzhokhar, 19, was awarded a scholarship to pursue further education; he wanted to become a brain surgeon, according to his father
Tamerlan, 26, was an amateur boxer who had reportedly taken time off college to train for a competition; he described himself as a "very religious" non-drinker and non-smoker

Police helicopters buzzed overhead, and bomb squad vans and ambulances were in position around the house in Franklin Street in Watertown on Friday night.

At one stage a series of about 15 explosions erupted, which local television channels speculated could have been flash-bang grenades used by the authorities.

A local resident, Anna Bedirian, told Reuters news agency: "There's about 50 guys there with machine guns and they all got bulletproof vests on, some of them are holding shields.

"There are a couple of armoured cars and they're all standing around."

Friday night's breakthrough came less than an hour after authorities lifted a city-wide order for residents to stay indoors, and reopened the transport system, as the trail appeared to have gone cold.

Thousands of Swat team officers scoured the streets all day in a manhunt that virtually shut down the city.

Officials had shut down all mass transit and warned close to one million people in Boston and some of its suburbs not to leave their homes.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a college student, had fled on foot following a gun battle that left 200 spent rounds and a car chase in which he and his brother hurled explosives at police, authorities said.

The brothers also shot and killed a university policeman and severely wounded another officer late on Thursday, authorities said, hours after the FBI released images of marathon-bombing suspects.

Law enforcement officials and family members have identified the Tsarnaev brothers as ethnic Chechens who had been living in America for about a decade.

The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after a request from a foreign government, US law enforcements officials have confirmed. But agents closed the case after finding no reason for concern.

Monday's attack killed Martin Richard, aged eight, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lu Lingzi, 23, a postgraduate student from China.

Boston Bombing

Friday, 19 April 2013