This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown. Picture: AP Source: AP
THE second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been arrested, following gunfire and explosions.
And police say three people have been taken into custody for questioning at a housing complex where the suspect may have lived.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, sparked a massive manhunt yesterday.
Police surrounded the man hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house at 67 Franklin St, Watertown, on Friday evening (about 10.30am AEST Saturday).
Media reports said Tsarnaev had been hiding in a boat in the backyard of the house, after being wounded in an overnight shootout in which his brother Tamerlan, believed to have been the second bombing suspect, was fatally shot.
The suspect fired shots from the boat where he was hiding, police say.
A neighbour has captured the frightening shootout that led to the arrest of the second Boston bombing suspect
At one stage, a series of about 15 explosions erupted, which local television channels said could have been stun grenades.
A neighbour alerted police after finding Tsarnaev ''covered with blood'' in a boat where he had taken refuge, Boston police chief Ed Davis told reporters.
The University of Massachusetts student was surrounded by a small army of police for a final showdown which lasted nearly two hours.
Attempts to negotiate with him failed as he was ''not communicating,'' Davis said.
A hostage negotiator was called in and shortly after the man was arrested.
The Associated Press identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, from Russia. Picture: VK.com
The suspect was taken to Mount Auburn Hospital in Watertown by ambulance in a serious condition.
He was later transferred to the Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston.
Police were sweeping the area for explosives.
Hundreds of people later descended into the streets of Boston to celebrate, chanting: ''USA! USA!''
Dozens of people at a police barricade cheered and applauded as law enforcement officers and emergency responders left the scene.
Boston Marathon bomb suspect number two is in custody after law enforcement arrested him after a brief stand-off. Fox News
Boston Police tweeted: ''CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.''
In another, Boston Police tweet: ''In our time of rejoicing, let us not forget the families of Martin Richard, Lingzi Lu, Krystle Campbell and Officer Sean Collier.''
Celebrations had erupted in Boston and beyond as the capture was announced in a tweet from police.
The mayor of Boston tweeted, ''We got him!''.
And in New York City, at the home of the Mets baseball team, fans leapt to their feet and cheered.
The suspect was holed up in this boat at 67 Franklin Street, Watertown. Picture: Fox News 25.
After the arrest, New Bedford Police Lieutenant Robert Richard says a private complex of off-campus housing at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth was searched by federal authorities.
Richard says the FBI took two males and one female into custody for questioning.
He says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have lived at or was affiliated with the housing complex. He is registered at the school.
US President Barack Obama said the suspect's capture closes what he calls ''an important chapter in this tragedy.''
Obama spoke from the White House shortly after Tsarnaev's arrest.
An aerial view of the boat in the backyard of the property at 67 Franklin Street, Watertown. Picture: Bing Maps
Obama says there are still many unanswered questions about the bombings, including whether the two men had help from others.
''We will determine what happened. We will investigate any associations that these terrorists may have had. And we'll continue to do whatever we have to do to keep our people safe,'' the President said.
He is urging the public to not rush to judgment about their motivations.
The President vowed to find out what turned two young US residents accused of the Boston bombings to hate.
Obama said in a brief on-camera statement that the attacks had failed because Americans refused to be terrorised and heaped praise on police and law enforcement services while remembering the dead and injured.
President Obama has praised the efforts of law enforcement after the arrest of suspect number two in the Boston bombing. Fox News
Earlier there were reports of a 'suspect down' near the Watertown Mall in Boston, just after police had announced residents were free to leave their homes after a day-long lockdown.
A police source said the suspect was injured and police feared he may have had explosives on his body.
Fox News 25 reported at 7.29pm (9.29am AEDT Saturday) the suspect was ''alive and still moving''.
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''He is hiding in a boat and he is refusing to come out,'' a Fox News 25 reporter said.
A police officer reacts to news of the arrest of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Boston. Picture: AP
Shortly before the explosions, police pulled out the SWAT team and sent in a robot to the yard.
Some 20 to 30 shots were fired in the area surrounding Franklin St, a residential area.
It's the same area where the Boston Marathon bomb suspects where spotted Thursday night.
In other developments, it's been revealed the older brother that died yesterday was interviewed by the FBI in 2011 as a result of a request by a foreign government.
And on Monday, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tweeted ''stay safe people'', which seemed aimed at soothing Bostonians rattled by the deadly terror attacks earlier in the day.
A gathering of people applaud as first responders leave the scene after the arrest. Picture: AP
READ HOW THE MANHUNT UNFOLDED HERE
Map and timeline of manhunt
The FBI spent more than three hours speaking to the suspects sister.
Aunt says suspect 'recently turned devout'
The suspects' clashes with police began hours after the FBI released photos and videos of them. Monday's bombings killed three people and wounded more than 180 others.
A Boston resident tells of a shooting while out walking the dog after the stay indoor request was lifted
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed overnight. His 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar is on the loose.
Tsarnaev escaped the night-time posse and had eluded capture so far when authorities ordered people across the Boston area to stay behind locked doors.
There were widespread fears that the teen had explosives strapped to his body.
Public transport in the city and Amtrak trains between Boston and New York were halted, while schools and universities, such as Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were closed along with businesses.
Barely a bar or restaurant was open in the ghostly city centre streets.
Law enforcement evacuate people near to where a suspect is hiding on Franklin St. Picture: AFP
The brothers are originally from a Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings.
Their social media pages appeared to express sympathy with the struggle of Chechnya, which has been ravaged by two wars since 1994 between Russia and increasingly Islamist-leaning separatist rebels.
Tsarnaev's family and friends appealed for him to surrender to police, who chased him armed with shotguns and automatic rifles, with the backing of helicopters and armoured personnel carriers.
The brothers' uncle has just given an emotional press conference in which he urged his nephew, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to turn himself in and ask for forgiveness.
Ruslan Tsarni said he last saw his nephews in 2009 and said he was ashamed of their actions.
Maret Tsarnaev, the aunt of the Boston suspects says they couldn't have done this
"I say Dzhokhar, if you're alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured," he said.
GALLERY: LOCKDOWN AS POLICE HUNT SUSPECT
Earlier the brothers' father -who lives in Russia - also spoke to media, calling his on-the-run son "an angel".
"Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the US He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here," Anzor Tsarnaev said.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old who had been known to the FBI as Suspect No. 1 and was seen in surveillance footage in a black baseball cap. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, - dubbed Suspect No. 2 -was seen wearing a white, backward baseball cap in the images from Monday's deadly bombing at the marathon finish line.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been named as the second suspect from the Boston Marathon bombings.
Authorities in Boston suspended all mass transit and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay indoors as the hunt went on. Businesses were asked not to open. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home.
From Watertown to Cambridge, police surrounded various buildings as they searched for Suspect No. 2. Around 8:30am, officers sprinted toward a house in Watertown, and reporters were pushed back more than a block as helicopters buzzed overhead. SWAT teams, FBI agents and armored vehicles assembled at the scene as sharpshooters across the street trained their guns at the house.
"We believe this man to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people."
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The bombings on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, tearing off limbs in a spray of shrapnel and instantly raising the specter of another terrorist attack on US soil.
Authorities have shed no light on the motive for the attack and have said it is unclear whether it was the work of domestic or international terrorists or someone else entirely with an unknown agenda.
The endgame - at least for Suspect No. 1 - came just hours after the FBI released photos and video of the two young men at the finish line and appealed to the public for help in identifying and capturing them. Tips came pouring in to the FBI immediately, but exactly how authorities managed to close in on the two was not immediately disclosed.
The images released by the FBI depict the two young men walking one behind the other near the finish line. Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent in charge in Boston, said Suspect No. 2 in the white hat was seen setting down a bag at the site of the second of two deadly explosions.
The brothers tried to rob a convenience store near MIT in Cambridge late on Thursday.
Authorities said surveillance tape recorded late Thursday showed Suspect No. 2 during a robbery of a convenience store in Cambridge, near the campus of MIT, where a university police officer was shot to death while responding to a report of a disturbance, said State Police Col Timothy Alben.
From there, authorities said, the two men carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz, keeping him with them in the car for half an hour before releasing him at a gas station in Cambridge. The man was not injured.
The search for the vehicle led to a chase that ended in Watertown, where authorities said the suspects threw explosive devices from the car and exchanged gunfire with police. A transit police officer was seriously injured during the chase, authorities said.
In Watertown, witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots and explosions at about 1 am Friday. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents were in the neighborhood and a helicopter circled overhead.
Watertown resident Christine Yajko said she was awakened by a loud noise, began to walk to her kitchen and heard gunfire.
"I heard the explosion, so I stepped back from that area, then I went back out and heard a second one," she said. "It was very loud. It shook the house a little."
She said a police officer later knocked on her door and told her there was an undetonated improvised explosive device in the street and warned her to stay away from the windows.
"It was on the street, right near our kitchen window," she said.
District Attorney statement: How today unfolded
New images of the two suspects have been released by law enforcement agencies. The man with the black cap is dead, while the white cap remains on the run. Source: news.com.au
State police spokesman David Procopio said: "The incident in Watertown did involve what we believe to be explosive devices possibly, potentially, being used against the police officers."
Boston cab driver Imran Saif said he was standing on a street corner at a police barricade across from a diner when he heard an explosion.
"I heard a loud boom and then a rapid succession of pop, pop, pop," he said. "It sounded like automatic weapons. And then I heard the second explosion."
He said he could smell something burning and advanced to check it out but area residents at their windows yelled at him, "Hey, it's gunfire! Don't go that way!"
Doctors at a Boston hospital where Suspect No. 1 died said they treated a man with a possible blast injury and multiple gunshot wounds.
In the past, insurgents from Chechnya and neighbouring restive provinces in the Caucasus have been involved in terror attacks in Moscow and other places in Russia.
Those raids included a raid in Moscow in October 2002 in which a group of Chechen militants took 800 people hostage and held them for two days before special forces stormed the building, killing all 41 Chechen hostage-takers. Also killed were 129 hostages, mostly from effects of narcotic gas Russian forces used to subdue the attackers.
Suspects in Boston marathon bombing. Picture: FBI Source: Supplied
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