Makhachkala - Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brothers, suspected in the United States of carrying out the Boston terror attacks, each spent a year studying at School No.1 in Makhachkala, the school principal, Eemirmagomed Davudov, told Interfax on Friday.
“They come from a family of refugees from Kyrgyzstan. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev studied in the first grade one year, and so did his elder brother Tamerlan. They have two sisters, as far as I remember. They left in 2002,” Davudov said.
There was nothing extraordinary about the children. I don’t think anyone would have remembered they studied in Makhachkala if the situation had not turned this way recently, he said.
The Tsarnaev brothers and sisters each studied as little as four months at the school, he said.
“They were admitted in 2001. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a first-grader, Tamerlan was in eighth grade, and the sisters Bela and Amina were in seventh and fifth grade. After studying for four months, they left for the United States with the family for permanent residence,” the school principal said.
Police are searching for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Watertown near Boston on suspicion of killing a policeman at the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and organizing the Boston marathon bombing.
