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A nanny carrying the severed head of a 4-year-old child shouted near the entrance of a subway in Moscow, threatening people as they passed by, before being arrested, Russian media reported Monday.
Videos posted on Russian news websites show a woman dressed all in black, holding the severed head and shouting, “I am a terrorist” in Russian, although most of what she says is incomprehensible. In some of the videos, the woman is tackled by men who appear to be police.
News agencies cited an unnamed police source as saying the woman appeared to have been under the influence of psychotropic drugs.
Immigration authorities told media the woman was from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan and had been working in Moscow illegally.
In a statement, translated by the BBC, the Moscow Investigative Committee says, “According to preliminary information, the child’s nanny, a citizen of one of the Central Asian states born in 1977, waited for the parents and elder child to leave the flat and then, for reasons not established, murdered the infant, set fire to the flat and left the scene,” it added in the statement.”
The woman is undergoing psychiatric tests, according to the investigative committee.
“I was on my way to the metro station from home,” Polina Nikolskaya, a Russian reporter, told Reuters. “She was standing near the metro entrance and caught my attention because she was screaming Allahu Akbar. I saw that she had a bloodied head in her arms, but I thought it was not real. People in the crowd said it was real.”
A woman has been seen brandishing a child's head in Moscow https://t.co/SZ6fIYA7zB pic.twitter.com/UV3gxaQAHi
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 29, 2016
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