The babysitter decapitated the little girl in her care before walking through Moscow carrying the child's severed head, police say.
Babysitter arrested for decapitating head of a 4-yr-old girl
A woman has been arrested after she pulled a child’s severed head from her bag and threatened to blow herself up, shouting, ‘I am a terrorist’.
Babysitter arrested for decapitating head of a 4-yr-old girl
The woman shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as she appeared near Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in the northwest of the Russian capital and threatened to blow herself up.
The woman is now in custody – with local media saying that police have found a young child’s body in a flat in Moscow after extinguishing a fire.
Local media report that a woman from a ‘Central Asian country’, in her 30s, had been arrested.
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According to local reports, she later told police she killed the girl because of her own husband's infidelity. Investigators immediately ordered a psychiatric test of the woman in a bid to understand her motives.
The nanny faces up to 20 years in jail if she is deemed psychologically fit to stand trial.
The security services are hunting for the woman's husband. A source said she may have been on 'light drugs'.
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