Russian Nanny Waving Severed Head around Arrested in Moscow

A nanny has been arrested on Monday after she was seen waving a severed child's head around right outside of a Moscow subway station in Russia.

Witnesses claimed that the woman, who has been identified as Uzbekistan native, Gulchekhra Bobokulova, 38, by the Interfax news agency, had shouted "Allahu Akbar" and threatened to "blow everyone up." She did not have any explosives on her, the authorities stated.

Dozhd TV reported, via Yahoo News that Bobokulova was holding the head of the young girl by her hair as she paced around in front of Oktyabrskoye Pole station.

"I saw that it was indeed a head," witness Alyona Kuratova had said to Dozhd TV. "The woman was going back and forth. She yelled something."

"I was on my way to the metro station from home," reporter Polina Nikolskaya told Reuters. "She was standing near the metro entrance and caught my attention because she was screaming Allahu Akbar. I saw that she had a bloodied head in her arms, but I thought it was not real. People in the crowd said it was real."

Reuters added that Lifenews.ru has uploaded video of Bobokulova. The video reportedly shows the woman wandering around with the child's head, which she had taken out of her bag after being approached by a policeman who wanted to check her papers.

Bobokulova, who was reportedly the caretaker of the girl, had claimed that she murdered the child, whose body was found in an apartment near the station. Interfax stated that the apartment was set on fire.

The Investigative Committee's statement read:

"According to preliminary information, the child's nanny -- a native of one of the Central Asian countries, born in 1977 -- waited until the parents left the apartment with their elder child and, guided by unknown motives, killed the little one, set the apartment on fire and left the scene."

It continued, "Given the clearly deranged behavior of the detainee, investigators swiftly ordered her to undergo psychiatric tests to establish whether she is capable of understanding the significance of her actions."

Bobokulova has been charged with the murder of the child and will undergo a psychiatric evaluation. The authorities believe that the girl was three or four-years-old.