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Police and media outside the West New York apartment Sunday of the sister of the two men accused in the Boston Marathon bombings.

WEST NEW YORK Town officials said Sunday that they are waiting to hear if a press conference will be held by the sisters of suspected Boston marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of whom lives in a Buchanan Place apartment. The siblings have remained mostly silent since a Friday manhunt in Massachusetts that left one brother dead and the other hospitalized in serious condition.

Officials, including mayor Felix Roque, have met with Ailina Tsarnaev and her husband who live in the apartment. Ailinas sister Bella was also there on Friday, Roque said.

"It was a surreal situation, they were all huddled like little children," said Roque, who visited the family on Friday night. Both of them were weeping, Ailina with her baby in her hand. Its a very somber feeling, a very depressing feeling.

Roque said his secretary has been in contact with the family should they decide to speak publicly.

They did express the feeling that they want to set the record straight, let the world know what happened, he said. It sounds to us like it is going to be done on Monday, and as the mayor, I have to accommodate them for security purposes, because there are some people out there that are going to try to harm them because of the incident.

Roque said the family has said they dont want their faces and bodies shown if they decide to speak.

Around 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, a man, who did not open the door of the second-floor apartment, told reporters that they had two minutes to leave before he called the police.

"We don't have nothing to say right now," he said. "We got children."

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West New York officials wait for word on statement by sisters of Boston bombing suspects