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sheshe2

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Tue May 7, 2013, 10:36 AM May 2013

Search drags on for burial spot for bomb suspect [View all]

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http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/10010554501117/search-drags-on-for-burial-spot-for-bomb-suspect/

BOSTON (AP) -- Despite more than 100 offers, a Massachusetts funeral director is striking out in his search for a burial location for the body of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was killed in a gun battle with police.
On Monday, Worcester funeral home director Peter Stefan said he'd received 120 burial offers from the United States and Canada for the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. But he said when he talked to officials in the cities and towns where the graves are located, nobody wanted the body there.

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Stefan said he plans to ask for a burial in the city of Cambridge, where Tsarnaev lived.

Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy urged the Tsarnaev family not to make a request.

"The difficult and stressful efforts of the citizens of the City of Cambridge to return to a peaceful life would be adversely impacted by the turmoil, protests, and wide spread media presence at such an interment," Healy said in a statement on Sunday.




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