Boston area campuses, including Harvard, MIT, Boston College, and the University of Boston are in lock-down, as authorities hunt down the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. One of the two primary suspects is believed dead and the other remains at large. (Update: Some reports indicate the second suspect may now be in custody.)
An MIT police officer was killed in a shootout with the suspects, according to a report from the Associated Press:
The suspects killed an MIT police officer overnight, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt, authorities said as the manhunt intensified.
The suspects were identified to The Associated Press as coming from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston, and said he “may be armed and dangerous.”
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