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                    Suspect Manhunt Puts Boston on Lockdown

   by Jerome Socolovsky

   A massive manhunt is underway Friday morning in Boston and surrounding
   towns for a suspect in Monday's marathon bombing, following an
   overnight gunfight that left a policeman and a second suspect dead.
   The suspects were driving a carjacked Mercedes SUV and police chased
   them after they were called to the scene of a robbery in Cambridge,
   across the river from Boston. Authorities say the suspects had fatally
   shot a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of
   Technology.
   Police say explosive devices were thrown at them from the fleeing car,
   and in an exchange of gunfire one of the suspects was shot, while the
   other fled in the vehicle.
   Ed Davis, the commissioner of the Boston police department, said they
   believe the suspect is a terrorist.
   "We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people," he
   said. "We need to get him in custody.''
   The first suspect was taken with multiple gunshot wounds to a hospital,
   where he was pronounced dead.
   Reports say the suspects are brothers of Chechen origin who had been
   living in the Boston area for about a year. Police had earlier released
   images of them near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
   ''
   Authorities are urging residents throughout Boston and a number of its
   suburbs to stay indoors, as police lay a dragnet for the suspect.
   Classes have been cancelled at schools and universities, and the entire
   public transport system of the Boston metropolitan area has been shut
   down.
   Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people and left
   more than 170 injured.
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