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Woman in black allegedly holding severed child's head near Moscow metro station detained

29 February 2016 11:10 (UTC +04:00)

According to LifeNews, the victim was a girl, identified as Nastya M. After the murder, the female suspect went to a metro station, where she was stopped by a local police officer. She immediately took the severed child’s head from her bag and started shouting that she had killed the child. The suspect is currently being detained by police authorities, Russian media reported.

The woman appeared near Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in northwest Moscow, RBK News reported. Passers-by said it was hard to determine if it was a man or a woman, as the person was dressed all in black.

Earlier on Monday, reports emerged that police had found a child’s headless body while extinguishing a fire at a Moscow apartment block. The child was about three or four years old, Interfax reported, citing sources.

Later, a police source told RIA Novosti that the child’s nanny was detained in connection with the murder. The source added that the child was brutally murdered. The rescuers managed to save at least four people from the fire, RIA Novosti reported.

A metro station in Moscow has been shut over reports that a woman dressed in black was holding a child’s severed head. The woman was reportedly shouting, “Allahu Akbar,” and threatened to blow herself up, Russian media said.