Two women were today dragged weeping from the streets where police in Boston are hunting the teenage terrorist accused of planting bombs at Monday's marathon.
The women, who have not been named, were pictured in a deeply distressed state as members of the FBI surrounded the area in Cambridge, Massachussetts.
The scenes took place near the home of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who fled following a shootout with police earlier today in which his older brother Tamerlan, 26, was killed.
The women stood in a street just two miles away from the location of the controlled explosion being carried out by police to neutralise a suspicious object.
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Members of the FBI, State Police, Boston Police, Cambridge Police and other law enforcement agencies assisted two women in Watertown during their search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev today
One of the women is comforted as officials speak to them on a street near the home of wanted terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Members of the FBI, State Police, Boston Police, Cambridge Police and other law enforcement agencies take away a woman near the home of terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
A woman appeared distressed at a member of Cambridge Police spoke to her in the street during the manhunt today
Nearly half a dozen officials surrounded the two women, who appeared to be upset after talking to representatives from Cambridge police.
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A dark-haired man with a moustache was seen hugging the younger woman, who was pictured making a call on a mobile phone.
Officials took notes as they spoke to the pair, while a police perimeter line was set up around the outside of the property to stop people from entering the area.
Two women were distressed when talking to police outside on a street in Cambridge, Massachussetts
The two women and the man appeared upset when speaking to FBI and officials from Cambridge Police
Images taken earlier today show the women clinging to each other for support, while sat on a wall surrounded by FBI and police.
Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva the mother of the two terror suspects, was charged with shoplifting from a Lord & Taylor store last year
Two male police officers led one of the women away from the area, and had to support her weight as she wept, while a female police officer spoke to her.
It is not clear why the police were speaking to the pair, and where they were taking them.
Residents in Cambridge have been told to remain in their homes and not to open their doors unless instructed by a police officer, as SWAT teams try to track down Chechnya-born Tsarnaev.
One million people are affected as Boston has been put in lockdown while police try to trace Tsarnaev, who they believe is linked to Monday's bombings, as well as the homicide of a police officer yesterday and a shootout early this morning.
After police today released the names Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in an attempt to arrest Dzohkhar, it emerged their 45-year-old mother Zubeidat was last year arrested for shoplifting in Natick, Massachussetts.
Ms Tsarnaeva was charged with two counts of malicious/wanton damage and defacement to property after allegedly stealing $1,600 worth of clothes from Lord & Taylor in June 2012.
She stole $1,624 in women's clothes, according to a Patch.com story.
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Members of the FBI and the police put up police tape securing a perimeter as officials note down information from two Cambridge women
The women appear to comfort each other from behind the police perimeter which is set up around them in Cambridge, Massachussetts
The two women clung to each other for support as police surrounded the area around them in Cambridge Massechussetts
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