Spokesman for office of chief medical examiner says funeral services company retained by family claimed body
The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been claimed on behalf of his family.
Tsarnaev's body had been kept at a Boston facility after he was killed in a shootout with police on 19 April, four days after the attack on the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.
Terrel Harris, a spokesman for the office of the chief medical examiner of Massachusetts, said a funeral services company retained by the family had claimed the body. Harris declined to provide details including the cause of death or where the body had been taken.
Authorities said Tsarnaev and his younger brother got into a gunfight with police following a massive manhunt for them, setting off a pressure cooker bomb and tossing grenades before the older brother ran of ammunition.
Police said they tackled the older brother and began to handcuff him but had to dive out of the way at the last second when the younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, drove a stolen car at them. They said the younger brother then ran over his brother's body as he drove away from the scene to escape.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in a federal prison and faces a charge of using a weapon of mass destruction to kill.
The Tsarnaev brothers' mother says the allegations against them are lies.