[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Police have confirmed that the second Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar A. Tsarnaev, is alive and in custody after a standoff in Watertown district.

A local CBS TV station cited Boston's MayorThomas Menino on Friday as saying a man believed to be the suspect was surrounded in Watertown.

Reuters news agency reports that according to state police, Tsarnaev is bleeding, in serious condidtion and is being taken to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Al Jazeera's correspondent, Alan Fisher, reporting from Boston, said the FBI had been alerted to a "trail of blood", with conflicting reports that a suspect has been pinned down.

A local woman contacted the authorities, said Fisher, having noted that her shed door, where she stores a boat, was open, and saw what she though were pools of blood.

Our correspondent said that shots had been heard being fired in Watertown and that police have been telling people "stay down and stay away from windows".

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Watertown resident Joseph Gerson said he had seen armed police running down his street.

Just hours earlier, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick lifted a stay-in-place order for Boston has been lifted and mass transit reopened while police pressed ahead with a manhunt for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Massachusetts State Police Colonel Timothy Alben told reporters at a joint press conference on Friday that authorities are committed to seeing resolution of the Boston Marathon bombing case.

Alben said there was no direct evidence that the suspect at large remains in Boston, although he is believed to still be in Massachusetts.

Police killed one suspect in a shootout and mounted house-to-house searches for a second man on Friday, as the city of Boston asked residents to stay home amid an unprecedented manhunt involving hundreds of officers.

Three people died and more than 170 were hurt when two bombs exploded near the finish line of Monday's marathon in an attack seen as the worst since the events of September 11, 2001.

Watertown a 'warzone'

"It is like living in a warzone. You have to be concerned for your family," said Gerson.

Earlier, investigators were searching "door-to-door, street-to-street" in Watertown, and had searched about 60 per cent of the homes so far.

Police said they would conduct a "controlled explosion" in Cambridge, Massachusetts, later on Friday as part of their investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings, Alben said.

The move was being taken "out of an abundance of caution" to protect officers conducting a search of a building, he said.

A national security official identified the hunted man as Dzhokar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and said the dead suspect was his brother, Tamerlan Tsarneav, 26.

An uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, who lives in a Washington suburb, told The Associated Press that the men lived together and had been in the United States for about a decade.

They came from a region near Chechnya that has been plagued by an insurgency related to a separatist war.

The suspects' father told the AP his younger son was a second-year medical student and described him as "a true angel."

On Thursday night, a university police officer was killed, a transit police officer was wounded, and the suspects carjacked a vehicle before leading police on a chase that resulted in the first suspect being shot dead.

Following the developments in the night, police cordoned off the suburb of Watertown and told residents not to leave their homes or answer the door as officers in combat uniforms carrying rifles scoured a 20-block area.

Public transportation throughout the metropolitan area was suspended, and air space was restricted. Universities including Harvard and MIT and public schools were closed.

'A terrorist'

Police were searching for the younger Tsarnaev, previously known only as Suspect 2, who was shown wearing a white cap in surveillance pictures taken shortly before Monday's explosions and released by the FBI on Thursday.

"We believe this to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis of the suspect still at large. "We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."

The older brother, previously known as Suspect 1, who was seen wearing a dark cap and sunglasses in the FBI images, was pronounced dead.

The FBI on Thursday identified the men as suspects in the twin blasts believed caused by bombs in pressure cookers placed inside backpacks left near the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon.


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naija should learn from this. Evil, obnoxious and wicked men should be hastily and speedily brought to justice. If it were naija, I'm sure we will set up a committee to look into the investigation and after about 3 months, everything goes down the drain.

If it is in nigeria now, hausa people will shield him with their life