video footage of a woman brandishing a severed infant's head near a busy Moscow metro station was broadcast by a local television on Monday.
Moscow's Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station was shut soon after the Burkha clad woman was seen taking out a 4-year-old girl's severed head from her bag. The woman has been identified as 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan named Gyulchekhra Bobokulova.
According to reports, the woman had been babysitting the girl and waited until the child's parents went out of the apartment before killing the girl and removing her head. Investigators say that she set the apartment on fire after the murder in order to do away with the evidence. Police had earlier on Monday found a child's body at a fire scene in an apartment near the metro station, the Telegraph reported.
One reporter, from the RBC daily, said she had heard the woman screaming "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great). The woman was later arrested by the police officials. Witnesses said the woman walked up and down outside the metro station for some 20 minutes, "shouting and brandishing the head", reported BBC.
Russian media also reported police searced for explosive devices in and around Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station. However, they did not locate any suspicious devices.
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