ONE OF the suicide bombers believed responsible for Monday’s deadly attacks on the Moscow subway was the 17-year-old widow of a Muslim insurgent leader from the Caucasus mountains of Dagestan, a Russian newspaper reported yesterday.
Kommersant published a photograph of Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova posing with a handgun. A man with his arm around her, also holding a gun, is identified as Umalat Magomedov, whom the paper describes as a militant leader killed by government forces in December. The picture was sent to Moscow police with biographical details on Abdurakhmanova by Dagestan’s ministry of internal affairs, Kommersant said.
Abdurakhmanova is thought to have carried out the first suicide attack, which killed more than 20 people at Lubyanka subway station, Kommersant said. The identity of the second attacker at Park Kultury station is not yet known.
On Wednesday, an Islamist leader from the north Caucasus admitted responsibility for the attacks, in which 39 people were killed and 70 were wounded. – ( Guardianservice)