Police woudn't relax at London Marathon after the end of Boston mahunt

A beefed-up police presence for Sunday's London Marathon will remain in place despite the death and capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Scotland Yard said, AFP reports.

London's Metropolitan Police is putting 40 percent more officers along the route than it did last year, to reinforce security and in a bid to reassure the 36,000 runners and tens of thousands of spectators.Several hundred more officers, plus search dogs, will be deployed this year.

Runners have been encouraged to wear black ribbons and organisers have announced that 2 GBP pound ($3, 2.30 euros) for every finisher will be donated to a fund for victims of the Boston attacks.

A 30-second silence will be held ahead of the elite men's race start. London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel said Saturday there would still be a "carnival atmosphere" around the course despite the heightened police presence.

US police on Friday captured a young, ethnic Chechen man suspected of staging the Boston Marathon bombings, after a desperate manhunt that virtually paralysed the city and its suburbs.

Responding to a tip from a local resident, police found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, hiding in a boat in a suburban backyard in Watertown, wounded and weary after a gun battle overnight in which his accomplice brother was killed.
Voice of Russia, AFP