A woman is being held in Moscow by officers after she brandishing a child’s severed head outside a metro station.
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She is said to have appeared outside Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station. Russian news agencies report that police have arrested a woman who was waving the severed head…
The woman’s name has not been released, but TASS reported that she was born in 1977. Her appearance followed the discovery of the decapitated body of a 3-year-old or 4-year-old child at a burned apartment in the capital, as the International Business Times reported.
The official report said the child’s body found in the apartment showed signs of a violent death.
Investigators said they were trying to determine the suspect’s motive.
The girl’s mother was taken to hospital after collapsing when she heard the news.
The Russian Investigative Committee – the country’s equivalent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation – said in a statement that the woman had been a babysitter for a family with two children.
Investigators claim that the baby sitter waited until the parents of an older child had left the apartment before murdering the child and starting a fire.
‘She was detained at the metro station Oktyabrskoe Pole’.
Her father is a technician at a mobile phone company.
News agencies cited an unnamed police source as saying the woman appeared to have been under the influence of psychotropic drugs.
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Police are not now treating the incident as terrorism.
