MOSCOW, Feb. 29 (UPI) — A nanny in Russia has been arrested for killing a child after she paraded through the streets of Moscow carrying the severed head of a 4-year-old in one hand.
The nanny has been identified as Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, 38, from Uzbekistan. The child has been identified as a four-year-old girl named Nastya.
“The child’s nanny, a citizen of one of the Central Asian states born in 1977, waited for the parents and elder child to leave the flat and then, for reasons not established, murdered the child, set fire to the flat and left the scene,” the Moscow Investigative Committee said in a statement, adding that Bobokulova was placed in psychiatric care to determine whether she is able to understand her actions as officials investigate if she suffers from mental illness or was under the influence of drugs.
Graphic videos of the incident show the woman, dressed in a hijab, shouting “Allahu Akbar,” “I am a terrorist” and “I am your death.” The child’s decapitated body was found in the apartment in Moscow where a fire was reported.
The incident reportedly occurred when a policeman asked Bobokulova for identification outside of the Oktyabrskoye Polye metro station in northwest Moscow. She pulled the head out of a bag and began screaming that she would detonate herself.
