Moscow police on Monday
arrested a nanny for beheading a young girl in her care, with witnesses
saying the black-clad woman was carrying a severed head and threatening
to "blow everyone up", reports AFP.
The agitated woman, who was reportedly shouting "Allahu
Akbar", was spotted pacing up and down outside a metro station in the
northwestern part of the Russian capital, witness Alyona Kuratova told
Dozhd TV, saying she was holding the head by its hair.
"I saw that it was indeed a head," she told the independent
channel. "Maybe it was a child's head as they started whispering in the
street."
She described scenes of chaos as police cars and ambulances
began arriving at the scene, with several people yelling: "terror
attack, terror attack."
"The woman was going back and forth," Kuratova said.
"She yelled something."
The witness said she could not make out what the woman
shouted but some media reported that she yelled "Allahu Akbar" -- Arabic
for "God is greatest" -- and threatened to blow herself up.
LifeNews, a news service known for its close ties to law
enforcement agencies, said that when police approached her for a
document check, she pulled the head out of her bag and started yelling
that she had killed a child.
Footage broadcast by Russian television showed several men
approaching and overpowering the woman. As she fell down, an object she
carried around rolled along the ground.
Russian investigators said a nanny had been detained after
the body of a child aged three or four years with "signs of violent
death" was found on Monday in an apartment in northwest Moscow after a
fire was extinguished there.
"According to preliminary information, the child's nanny -- a
native of one of the Central Asian countries, born in 1977 -- waited
until the parents left the apartment with their elder child and, guided
by unknown motives, killed the little one, set the apartment on fire and
left the scene," the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
State news agency TASS, citing a source, said: "The child's
body was without the head. According to a preliminary version, the nanny
carried away the head."
- 'Monstrous and inexplicable' -
Investigators said the woman was detained and a criminal
probe opened. They said the suspect would undergo a psychiatric
examination to establish whether she "understands the meaning of her
actions and behaviour."
The Investigative Committee did not provide further details.
Interfax news agency, citing a law enforcement source,
identified the woman as 38-year-old Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, a native of
ex-Soviet majority-Muslim Uzbekistan.
The mother of the slain girl was taken away by an ambulance in a state of unconsciousness, state Zvezda television channel said.
"Monstrous and inexplicable," Russia's children's rights
commissioner Pavel Astakhov said on Twitter, urging parents to carefully
check on the mental state of nannies when they are hired.
"Papers from the narcologist and psychiatrist should be obligatory when you hire a nanny," he said.
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