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CNN: Boston bombings suspect was wearing explosives

Posted at 9:44 AM, Apr 19, 2013
and last updated 2013-04-19 09:45:20-04

(CNN) – The Boston bombings suspect who was killed in a confrontation with police overnight in the Boston area was wearing explosives and an explosive trigger when his body was recovered, a source briefed on the investigation says, according to CNN’s Deborah Feyerick.

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Several sources tell CNN that the dead suspect has been identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and the one still being sought in Watertown is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.

Police have publicly said that the dead suspect is the man that the FBI previously identified as “Suspect No. 1” in the Boston Marathon bombings. They also have said publicly that the suspect that they chased and last saw in Watertown overnight is the man that the FBI said was “Suspect No. 2.”