The woman has been identified by a Russian newspaper as Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, 38, of Uzbekistan.
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Amateur video footage posted online, which the MailOnline shared, shows the woman walking around the metro station shouting “Allahu Akbar”. RIA Novosti reported that the child’s decapitated body had been found when firefighters extinguished the blaze.
Bobokulova was arrested after a police officer asked her for identification outside the Oktyabrskoye Polye metro station in northwest Moscow.
Horrific scenes in Moscow today as a woman ran through the streets with the severed head of a child that was in her care.
A WOMAN HAS been arrested in Moscow after appearing in public holding what appeared to be a child’s head.
The woman, reportedly a nanny, was charged with murder, Reuters reported.
According to local media, she shouted: “I hate democracy”.
The suspect waited until the child’s parents left the apartment with an older child, then killed the child and set the apartment on fire, the Investigative Committee said.
A woman has been filmed brandishing the severed head of a child outside a Moscow metro station.
Some said the woman had paced up and down for some 20 minutes before she was detained near Oktyabrskoe Pole metro station.
Russia’s Interior Ministry has confirmed in a statement that the woman had been carrying severed head of a child, thought to be a 4-year-old girl, whom she had been babysitting.
They said that the suspect would undergo a psychiatric examination to establish whether she “understands the meaning of her actions and behaviour”.
A bomb squad from the FSB security agency were working in the area where the woman was detained, news agency Interfax reported.
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According to him, the investigators managed to achieve contact with the detainee and that gave a confession about the murder of the girl. Police say she had apparently consumed drugs.
