Body of alleged Boston bomber buried in private Virginia cemetery Published May 10, 2013
FoxNews.com The body of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried in a private cemetery in Virginia, his uncle said Friday.
The body was reportedly buried at Al Barzakh Muslim Cemetery in Dowsell, Va, MyFoxBoston.com reported.
Ruslan Tsarni, Tsarnaev's uncle said the body was buried with the help of a "faith coaltiion."
"The body's buried. That's it," he said.
Worcester Police Department said Thursday the body was removed from Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlor and was entombed elsewhere, but would not say where.
Police called the individual who accommodated earlier requests for a proper burial of the suspect a "courageous" and "compassionate" person.
According to a press release from the press coalition, the effort was initiated by a Richmond woman named Martha Mullen.
"Jesus tells us 'love your enemies.'" Mullen told her pastor, MyFoxBoston.com reported.
"Not to hate them even after they are dead," she said.
Funeral home director Peter Stefan said he had reached out to hundreds of cemeteries that all refused to take the body, MyFoxBoston.com reported.
There had been controversy surrounding where to bury the man police say helped carry out the April 15 bombings near the race's finish line, using pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards. The attack killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
Tsarnaev was pronounced dead at a hospital in Boston following a gunbattle with police, where he could have been buried under state law, because the city was his place of death. But Boston officials said they wouldn't take the body because Tsarnaev lived in Cambridge, and Cambridge also refused.
His mother also said Russia refused to allow his body into the country so she could bury him in her native Dagestan, but Russian authorities would not comment on that contention.
Tamerlan's younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured after a massive manhunt and is now in a prison hospital, facing charges that could bring the death penalty.
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