Teen 'Black Widow' Suspected in Moscow Bombing
MOSCOW, April 2, 2010 -- One of the two suicide bombers who attacked Moscow's subway system Monday, killing 40 people, was a 17-year-old girl, authorities said.
Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova was the young widow of Umalat Magomedov, an Islamist militant leader from the restive southern republic of Dagestan who was killed on New Year's Eve by Russian federal security forces, according to media reports.
She was identified based on forensic and genetic tests, along with "identification procedures," a spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee said today.
The first picture that surfaced was of the couple, each holding a pistol; Abdurakhmanova in traditional Muslim dress looking menacingly into the lens. Others have since emerged of the baby-faced teen holding various other weapons.
Abdurakhmanova, also known as Abdullayeva, detonated her explosives packed with bolts at the height of rush hour Monday at the Park Kultury metro station, 40 minutes after another female suicide bomber detonated at the Lubyanka metro station. Lubyanka is near the headquarters of the Federal Security Services, previously the KGB.
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The Investigative Committee spokesman, Vladimir Markin, said the identity of the other female suicide bomber was still being established. Kommersant reported that authorities suspect Markha Ustrakhanova, 20, of the predominantly Muslim Chechnya.
Ustrakhanova was also a widow. Her husband was a Chechen militant killed in October as he allegedly plotted to assassinate the republic's president.
