adminThe toll, up from around 200 on Monday, has been rising because people who suffered minor injuries in the blasts last week, are only now going in for treatment, said commission spokesperson Katinka Podmaniczky.
As of Tuesday morning, a total of 51 people remained hospitalised, she told AFP.The blasts, allegedly carried out by two ethnic Chechens living legally in the US, killed three people, one of them an 8-year-old boy.
The surviving suspect, 19-year-old Dzokhar Tsarnaev, himself remains hospitalised with gunshot wounds.He has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and could face the death penalty if convicted.
His 26-year-old brother Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police. — AFP.
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