Investigators said one of the two suicide bombers who struck the Moscow metro last week was the 17-year-old widow of an Islamic militant killed on New Year's Eve.
The woman, Dagestani native Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova, died when explosives she was carrying detonated at the Park Kultury metro station last Monday, the Investigative Committee said in a statement Friday.
The two bombers killed at least 40 commuters on the metro's Red Line, including a 51-year-old man who died in the hospital on Friday. The Emergency Situations Ministry on Sunday raised the number of injured to 121.
Abdurakhmanova was the widow of senior Dagestani rebel Umalat Magomedov, also known as Al Bar, who was killed by the security services in a special operation on Dec. 31, a source in the National Anti-Terrorism Committee told Interfax.
State television on Friday broadcast a photo of Abdurakhmanova with her husband. Abdurakhmanova is wearing a black Muslim headscarf and clutching a Makarov pistol. Her husband is embracing her and holding a Stechkin gun.
The second suicide bomber, who struck at the Lubyanka metro station, has not been officially identified yet. But Novaya Gazeta reported Sunday that she was a 28-year-old computer science teacher from the Dagestani village of Balakhany, Maryam Magomedova.
The notion of Matyr is still not sinking in to me, I mean I'm scared of cutting myself with a knife when am chopping onions, how do you tie a load of bombs on your body? What kind of heart do these people have?
Monday, April 5, 2010
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