The woman is said to have appeared near Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in northwest Moscow. She was heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” in the street – something that has been recorded in videos published by Russian media this morning.
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Russia’s Interior Ministry confirmed in a statement that the suspect had been brandishing a real human head, that of a child, thought to be a four-year-old girl whom the woman had been babysitting nearby.
Earlier on Monday, reports emerged that police had found a child’s headless body while extinguishing a fire at a Moscow apartment block.
They said she was being sent for psychiatric examination.
The source in the Investigative committee told TASS: ‘She waited until the parents with the elder child left the flat, then for unknown reason she killed the child, set fire to the apartment and left the scene. There were a bunch of people there, running, screaming “bomb, bomb”.
The woman aged in her late 30s was walking around the entrance to the metro for about an hour.
Police are not now treating the incident as terrorism.
“Maybe it was a child’s head, like they were whispering in the crowd”.
Authorities did not identify the woman but said she was born in 1977 and is from central Asia.
“She was detained at the metro station Oktyabrskoe Pole”.
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Her father is a technician at a mobile phone company. According to LifeNews sources, she failed to explain how the child was connected to her husband.
