Boston bombing suspect moved to prison from hospital

April 26, 2013 05:56 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 08:12 pm IST - Boston

The U.S. Marshals Service said on Friday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the Boston Marathon bombing had been moved from a Boston hospital to the federal medical center at Devens, about 40 miles west of the city.

The U.S. Marshals Service said on Friday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the Boston Marathon bombing had been moved from a Boston hospital to the federal medical center at Devens, about 40 miles west of the city.

The lone surviving Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was injured in a deadly shootout with police here last week, was transferred from a hospital to a prison medical centre in Massachusetts on Friday.

The suspect has been transferred from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to Federal Medical Center Devens, a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility in north-central Massachusetts that holds detainees who need medical care, US Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade was quoted as saying by CNN.

The facility is about 65 kilometers from the Boston-area hospital where Tsarnaev has been recuperating after he was found critically wounded in a boat in a massive police manhunt, days after the bombing which killed three and wounded 264.

The 19-year-old Chechen has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and could face the death penalty if convicted.

His older brother, Tamarlan Tsarnaev 26, also accused of participating in the twin bombing, was killed in a shootout as the two tried to evade police in a stolen car last week.

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