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Bombing Suspect Not Being Buried in West Roxbury Cemetery

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's funeral is being handled by a Worcester funeral home.

 

A West Roxbury cemetery employee says he was one of several Greater Boston cemetery representatives who preemptively refused to bury the body of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. 

The employee, who spoke with Patch on the condition of anonymity, said that he reached out to members of the local Muslim community to make clear his cemetery would not bury or conduct a funeral for Tsarnaev.

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WBZ first reported that a West Roxbury cemetery, as well as one in Enfield, Connecticut, turned down requests for Tsarnaev's burial.

Tsarnaev's funeral is being handled in Worcester, by Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, confirmed WBZ. 

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