Waving her trophy, the nanny who beheaded girl
PACING up and down in the streets, a nanny clad in a hijab waves the severed head of a young girl who had been left in her care.
Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, 38, wandered around outside a busy Moscow metro station threatening to ‘blow everyone up’ after beheading the child, who was four years old.
Witnesses said the woman was holding the head by its hair and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’, Arabic for ‘God is greatest’.
Police had approached her near Oktyabr- skoye Pole station in the northwest of the capital, Russian media reported. Bobokulova pulled the head out of her bag and started yelling that she had killed a child.
She is then said to have shouted that she was a terrorist and was seen praying shortly before she was arrested 20 minutes later. Russian TV showed footage of police officers overpowering her. As she fell, the head rolled on the ground.
According to local reports, she told police she killed the girl because her husband had cheated on her. Investigators ordered psychiatric tests.
Witness A lyona Kuratova described scenes of chaos as police cars and ambulances arrived at the scene, with several people yelling: ‘Terror attack, terror attack.’ She added: ‘The woman was going back and forth.’
A news agency identified Bobokulova as a native of Uzbekistan, a former Soviet state with a majority Muslim population. The child was identified only as Nastya M. Emer- gency services had found Nastya’s remains, showing ‘signs of a violent death’, after being called to tackle a fire in a rented apartment nearby.
Investigators said the nanny ‘waited until the parents left the apartment with their elder child, killed the little one, set the apartment on fire and left the scene’.
Nastya, who had a 15-year- old brother, was said to have had learning difficulties and could not walk as a result of problems during her birth in August 2011. Her parents, from the Oryol region, some 200 miles south of Moscow, had sought treatment for Nastya in China and were saving to take her to Germany for more therapy.
The mother works in a wedding shop and the father is a technician at a mobile phone company. They told police the nanny had worked for them for 18 months and had a valid residency permit.
Bobokulova faces up to 20 years in jail if she is deemed mentally fit to stand trial.