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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 08:13 PM Apr 2013

Students from Kazakhstan arrested on visa violations (may have known alleged bombers)

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/22/students-from-kazakhstan-arrested-visa-violations/Hm1EkX5Knnr5gtbwmEotWJ/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

Two foreign students arrested Saturday in New Bedford for allegedly violating their student visas are from Kazakhstan and may have known the brothers accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, according to a statement from the nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. FBI and Homeland Security agents wearing hazmat suits descended on the students’ neighborhood on Monday and searched their apartment, according to media reports in New Bedford. Kazakhstan’s foreign ministry said US immigration officials discovered the students while investigating the Tsarnaev brothers’ “possible links and contacts.”

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