Amateur video posted online shows a black-clad woman outside a metro station shouting the Islamic phrase “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great).
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Reuters reports that investigators think the woman, who was working as a nanny, killed a child she was caring for and set the family’s apartment on fire.
The Guardian reports that the woman killed the young girl and cut off her head before setting an apartment on fire and fleeing.
The police investigating in the case later found out that the head was of Anastasia and her body was recovered from inside the cottage of the accused.
Polina Nikolskaya, a reporter at the RBC daily newspaper, saw the women on the street.
Russian daily Moskovsky Komsomolets, quoting Uzbek police, said the woman was suffering from schizophrenia for around 15 years.
Local media said the woman was apparently under the influence of some drug when she began yelling and waving the child’s head in the air to the shock and horror of many passing by. However, they did not locate any suspicious devices. The kid was accepted to have been 3 or 4 years of age.
Police say they found no explosives in the suspect’s possession yet the Federal Security Service has cordoned off the metro station to check for bombs in the region, the Interfax news organization reported.
The suspect is believed to have waited until the parents and an older child left the apartment before killing the girl and removing her head.
On Tuesday morning, Muscovites brought heaps of flowers, toys, chocolate and baby food to an improvised memorial near the metro station to commemorate the murdered child. When she got home she learnt that her husband had taken a new family.
Police appeared to rule out terrorism as a motive, saying Mrs Bobokulova was “clearly insane”.
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Investigators have ordered Bobokulova to undergo psychiatric tests to establish whether she is “capable of understanding the significance of her actions”, Moscow officials said.
