Uncle of bomb suspects says: Turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness

The uncle of two men suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings has called on his nephew to turn himself in.

"I say Dzhokhar, if you’re alive, turn youself in, and ask for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured," said Ruslan Tsarni. "Ask forgiveness from these people."

He also said that wishes his nephews “never existed”.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, went on the run after his older brother Tamerlan was killed in a shoot-out with police in Massachusetts.

Tsarni, of Montgomery Village, Maryland, told US news channel WBZ-TV that the bombings had left him “devastated” and were “not comprehensible in our family”.

He said: “I just wish they never existed. I’m wordless. I’m shocked.

“I’ve been watching it and reading it. The people who did this, they don’t deserve to even exist on this Earth, that is what I think.”

Mr Tsarni said he had not spoken to the men – his older brother’s sons – for “a number of years”.

The siblings lived together near Boston, having moved to the US around a decade ago after growing up in an area of Russia near Chechnya.

When he was told that Tamerlan had died, Mr Tsarni replied: “He deserved his (sic). He absolutely deserved his (sic).”

He described the older brother as a “loser” and said the pair were “barbarians”.