Moscow: Investigators have identified the
suicide bomber who blew herself up in one of the two Moscow
Metro attacks on Monday as a woman hailing from the restive
Daghestan region, with reports saying that she could be a
widow of a slain rebel leader.
The bomber, who has been identified, had targetted the
Park Kultury metro station in the second of the two bomb
attacks that killed 12 of the total 39 people killed on
Monday.
"At the moment only the suicide bomber who set off a bomb
at the Park Kultury metro station has been identified. She is
a resident of Daghestan", an unnamed security official of the
North Caucasus federal District was quoted as saying by RIA
Novosti.
However, her name was not revealed in the interest of the
investigation, it said.
Park Kultury metro station was bombed 40 minutes after
the attack on Lubyanka, which is located under the ex-KGB
headquarters, now occupied by FSB security service.
Leading daily Kommersant today said that according to one
of line of investigation, a younger woman who attacked
Lubyanka metro was Markha Ustarkhanova, a 20 year-old widow of
Said-Amin Khizirov, a rebel leader who was killed in a
gunbattle with security forces in October.
Thirty-nine people were killed and over 80 injured in the
March 29 twin blasts during the morning rush hour.
Earlier, during President Dmitry Medvedev's five hour
surprise visit to Daghestani capital Makhachkala, FSB director
Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting with the regional
officials that some arrests have been made in connection with
both Moscow and Kizlyar terror attacks.
Yesterday's twin suicide blasts in the town of Kizlyar,
near the boundary with Chechnya, had claimed 12 lives and left
about 30 people injured.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, April 01, 2010, 21:16