The Boston Marathon Bombing was a terrorist attack
that occurred on April 15, 2013, when two bombs went off near the finish
line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than
260 other people.
After an intense manhunt, police captured one of the bombing suspects,
19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose older brother and fellow suspect,
26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a shootout with law enforcement.
Investigators concluded that the Tsarnaevs, who spent part of their childhood
in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, planned and carried out the attack
on their own and were not connected to any terrorist groups.
It has been 10 years since the bombing.
This year, the Boston Marathon will be held on Monday, April 17, 2023