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Tsarnaevs’ father puts off plans to travel to US

A frame grab from a video taken on April 19, 2013, shows Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the suspected Boston bombers, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnayev, speaking with journalists at home Makhachkala, the capital Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan. BASHIR ALIEV/AFP/Getty Images

MAKHACHKALA, Russia – The father of the Boston bombing suspects says he has indefinitely put off returning to the U.S. because he is too sick to make the trip from Russia.

Anzor Tsarnaev announced plans last week to travel to the U.S. in the hope of seeing his jailed younger son and burying his elder one.

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But the 46-year-old Tsarnaev told The Associated Press on Wednesday that those plans are off, saying he is suffering from bad headaches and high blood pressure. He said he still hopes to go when he is feeling better.

Speaking by cellphone, Tsarnaev refused to say where he was. He said he remains on Russian territory, but is no longer in the southern province of Dagestan, where he had been living, or in neighbouring Chechnya.

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