BOSTON: The trial of the only suspect in the Boston bombings begins on Monday with jury selection, 20 months after the attack that turned the city's annual marathon into a scene of carnage.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, a young Muslim of Chechen origin, faces the death penalty for the bombing that was the worst act of terror on US soil since the September 11 attacks in 2001.

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