Moscow: A 20-year-old Lithuanian woman, suspected to be linked to twin suicide blasts in Moscow metro last month in which 40 people were killed, has been detained, a media report said on Sunday.
A resident of western Lithuanian city of Klaipeda, the woman with Chechen links was detained at the Vilnius international airport while trying to get on a flight to
Moscow shortly before metro bomb strikes, RIA Novosti reported from quoting the Lietuvos Rytas Lithuanian daily.
The woman attracted attention of Lithuanian special services as she persistently tried to obtain a Russian visa and her luggage contained literature about explosives and detailed Moscow metro map.
Subsequent investigation revealed that she had a Chechen friend, who perished after returning to his homeland in 2007.
The girl soon ran from home and was found six months later in a small German town where she lived in a Chechen family.
She used to say that she wanted to convert to Islam and after returning to Klaipeda maintained contacts with other Chechens living there.
Prosecutor General`s offices in Lithuania and Russia, as well as Lithuanian State Security Department did not comment on the report.
On Friday, Russia said it has arrested main plotters of the Moscow bombings.
"We have made arrests. Very serious work is underway," a law enforcement source was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti. However, no other details were disclosed.
Earlier, the investigators had identified the suicide bombers as Dzhanat Abdurakhmanova (Abdulayeva), 17, and Mariyam Sharipova, 28, both residents of Russia`s North Caucasus republic of Daghestan.
Abdurakhmanova was the widow of Daghestani militant Umalat Magomedov (Al-Bar), who was killed during a special law enforcement operation on December 31 last year after he shot at police who were attempting to search a car he was travelling in. Sharipova was a school teacher and wife of Chechen rebel leader Magomedali Vagapov.
In the course of investigation, the Moscow police found an apartment which was rented by the suspected male accomplices of the bombers, who are believed to have accompanied the two women to the metro and given them explosive belts.
PTI
