Black Widow Responsible For Moscow Subway Bombing Identified As Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova From Dagestan
On Friday, Russian authorities disclosed that one of the suicide bombers who was responsible for Moscow subway bombing this week, was a teenage widow from the republic of Dagestan.
The name of the teen is Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova, also called Abdullayeva, was released by national counter-terrorism committee who said that the teen blew herself up in Park Kultury Metro station.
Other sources from law enforcement informed Interfax news agency that the 17 year old was the widow of Dagestani militant leader Umalat Magomedov, who was killed by federal troops last year.
The intelligence and law enforcement groups announced that they have caught some of the accomplices and interrogation is on.
There is no information about the second suicide bomber responsible for Moscow metro bombing, from the authorities but Kommersant newspaper reports that the second bomber has been identified tentatively as Markha Ustarkhanova from Chechnya, who was the 20-year-old widow of a militant leader killed in October. So it is a case of Black Widows.
Meanwhile President Dmitry Medvedev visited Dagestan after the second set of bombings. On Friday he was back in Moscow and calling for tough action against those responsible for the attacks.
Medvedev said on Friday, "As far as militant nests are concerned, our police will remain the same. We will carry out operations and eliminate them without any hesitations."
