A private funeral was held for 8-year-old Martin Richard today, the youngest victim in the Boston Marathon bombing.
"The outpouring of love and support over the last week has been tremendous. This has been the most difficult week of our lives and we appreciate that our friends and family have given us space to grieve and heal," the Richard family said in a statement.
Today's funeral mass was attended only by family, but a public memorial service is being planned for the coming weeks.
Bomb Victim, 7, in Critical Condition as Funerals Begin
Several dozen people injured in the Boston Marathon blast remain hospitalized, including a 7-year-old girl who is in critical condition with "multiple leg injuries" as the city observed a moment of silence for the bombing victims.
The update on the injured was released as services began for the three people who in died in last Monday's bombing.
Krystle Campbell, 29, was laid to rest today at a private ceremony at St. Joseph's Church in Medford, Mass.
There was concern members of the Westboro Baptist Church, known for their hate speech, would picket the funeral, but the Teamsters Local 25 stepped in to make sure Campbell's family would be shielded.
"We had the place pretty much locked down," Local 25 President Sean O'Brien told ABCNews.com. "There is no place for anybody that was going to disrupt someone's funeral."
O'Brien estimated 1,000 Teamsters stood outside the church, ready to take care of business in the event there was a problem. It's not clear if any protesters showed up.
The parents of Lingzi Lu, the Chinese graduate student killed in the bombing, will attend a memorial service tonight at Boston University before they return home to China with the body of their daughter, a university spokesman told ABCNews.com.
Lu's parents departed for the United States on Friday to pick up their daughter's remains, China's official Xinhua news agency reported. Lu was the only child in a family adhering to China's one-child policy.
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