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Boston Marathon bombings

Boston Marathon bombings
On April 15, 2013, two bomb blasts rocked the annual Boston Marathon, injuring more than 170 people and killing three others: Martin Richard, 8; Krystle Campbell, 29; and Lu Lingzu, 23, a Chinese student at Boston University. The suspects later forced a standoff with authorities. They were identified as two ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia who had been in the US for about a decade, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who died in the gun battle. Dzhokhar was arrested on April 19, 2013.
Jury selection begins in Boston Marathon bombing trial

Video | Jury selection begins in Boston Marathon bombing trial

Boston Marathon bomber’s trial set to begin as jurors selected

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Friend of Boston bombing suspect told string of lies, trial hears

Friend of Boston bomb suspect pleads guilty to removing evidence

A college friend of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded guilty to removing evidence of the deadly 2013 attack.

A courtroom sketch of Dias Kadyrbayev.Photo: AP

Boston Marathon suspect boasted of his bomb-making skills: prosecutor

Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a friend a month before the attack that he knew how to make a bomb, a US prosecutor told jurors at the friend's obstruction trial.

Update | Nearly 36,000 runners reclaim Boston Marathon one year after attacks

Tens of thousands of runners, cheered by a multitude of spectators, set off through the streets of Boston on Monday to reclaim the world’s oldest marathon from the fear left by last year’s deadly twin bombing.

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Could Boston bombings been prevented with an arrest?

It was a shocking slaying in a Boston suburb that sometimes goes years without one homicide, let alone three at once. The victims' throats had been sliced in a home on a tree-lined street, marijuana and cash strewn over their bodies.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left) and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Photo: AP

FBI agent 'justified' in shooting Boston bomb suspect's friend, says Florida prosecutor

FBI agent in Boston bombings in clear over shooting of suspect's friend

Investigators have concluded an FBI agent should be cleared of wrongdoing over the fatal shooting of a Chechen immigrant while he was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, a US law enforcement official said.

'Detrimental' statement by Boston Marathon bomb suspect claimed

An FBI agent overheard Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev make a "statement to his detriment" when his sister visited him in prison, US prosecutors said. Prosecutors did not reveal what Tsarnaev said, but they objected to what they called an attempt by Tsarnaev's lawyers to suppress the statement.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Boston runners to honour slain Chinese student

Lu Lingzi had just aced her exams before she died. Photo: SCMP

New | US to seek death penalty for accused Boston bomber

Rolling Stone sparks storm with Boston bombing suspect cover

Rolling Stone defended on Wednesday a cover story on Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, which triggered angry claims that it was “glamorising terrorism” and calls to boycott the US magazine.

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Chinese Boston bombing victim's family to get US$2.2m

The family of a Chinese graduate student killed in the Boston Marathon bombing will reportedly receive US$2.2 million compensation, prompting a social media outcry over the lack of comparable assistance for disaster victims on the mainland.

Lu Lingzi. Photo: AP

Boston bombing suspect allegedly wrote anti-US messages inside boat

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scrawled anti-American messages inside the boat where he lay wounded, according to US federal prosecutors.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Runners complete Boston Marathon cut short by bomb attack in April

Thousands of runners and supporters have taken to the streets of Boston to complete a marathon that many were forced to abandon last month after bombs exploded near the finish line.

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Opinion | A little distraction can help healing

A man is not feeling well so his doctor tells him to take antibiotics for two weeks, painkillers for three weeks and watch 15 baseball games over the next four weeks and he will be healed. Of course, it is a myth. Sports does not heal, it only distracts. But I have to remind myself of this all the time, particularly when a dose of heavy perspective is served up like the events in Boston.

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'News' on social media must be treated with caution

There is no denying the worth of social media in keeping us in touch and informed. In careless hands, though, it can cause panic, anguish, pain and suffering. The hacking of a news agency's Twitter account that led to a plunge in US stocks and the wrongful implication of a man in the Boston Marathon bombings put the problem sharply in focus. Users need to think twice about what they read, check where it comes from and be less compulsive about passing it on.

The false Twitter announcement from the hacked Associated Press account that caused US shares to tumble.

Boston bombing carjack victim recalls his night of terror

Chinese driver carjacked by Boston bombing suspects tells of his ordeal

A Chinese entrepreneur has told an American newspaper how Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev stopped his car on the night of the deadly shoot-out with police, uttering the words 'Don't be stupid', before carjacking the vehicle.

Dead Boston bomber in terror database

Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left) and brother Dzhokhar. Photo: AP

Beware the overzealous response to acts of terrorism

To follow the drama of the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers online through Twitter, Reddit, television news, police scanners and newspaper updates was to be inundated with an abundance of almost real-time information. Anyone with a computer and internet access could get a virtual view of events, blow by blow, and connect the dots, rightly or wrongly, along the way. To follow the tweets of Watertown eyewitnesses, in particular, was to be thrust into a front-row seat of a real-life movie of guns popping in the dark and bodies falling, police cars racing and bystanders mistakenly apprehended.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev.
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Letters to the Editor, April 24, 2013

I write as a former member of the Legislative Council. Throughout the history of Hong Kong, there has never been a level playing field.

Lu Lingzi, Chinese student killed in Boston bombings, remembered as 'joyful and energetic'

‘A sweet-hearted woman’: Family pays tribute to Chinese victim of marathon blasts

Zheng Minhui, a classmate of Lu Lingzi, gives a remembrance speech during a memorial service for Lingzi at Metcalf Hall in Boston University's George Sherman Student Union. Photo: Reuters

Use the law, not a war, to tackle terror

Law, not war

Boston bomb suspect Tsarnaev lived quietly during 6-month Dagestan visit

Violence that has racked the North Caucasus region for years has spread to the republic of Dagestan and reached its capital, Makhachkala, which can often seem a city under siege. Checkpoints are a common sight, as are patrolling police with body armour and assault rifles.

After Boston, lessons from a legacy of terror

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