Tsarnaev buried: Boston bombing suspect buried at an undisclosed location

Bostonbombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried at an undisclosed location, Massachusetts police say.

Tsarnaev's body "is no longer in the City of Worcester and is now entombed", a police statement said.

Tsarnaev was killed during a manhunt after last month's bombing, which killed three and injured more than 260.

Authorities had been struggling to find a community willing to accept Tsarnaev's body.

Dozens of protesters picketed the Worcester funeral home holding his body last week.

"As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased," a police statement said.

The statement also thanked "the community that provided the burial site".

Tsarnaev and his brother are accused of planting two bombs near the finishing-line of the Boston Marathon on 15 April.

After being hit in a shoot-out with police, Tsarnaev was reportedly run over by his younger brother as he escaped from the scene in a car.

Surviving brother Dzhokhar is in a prison hospital after being shot and injured during the police manhunt.

The two are also suspected of shooting dead one policeman and injuring another.

The family are ethnic Chechen Muslims from Russia and had been living in the US for about a decade. Tamerlan was drawn to radical Islam.

His wife, Katherine Russell, declined to pick up his body from the medical examiner's office, allowing his relatives to claim the remains instead and arrange for a funeral.