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Woman arrested carrying the head of four-year-old child through streets.

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Russian police have arrested a woman in Moscow who is thought to have murdered a child after she was believed to be carrying a severed head through the streets.

BBC reports that the woman is though to be the victim’s nanny and is suspected of setting fire to the parent’s apartment before killing their four-year-old daughter.

CCTV shows the woman walking near Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station with a head in her hands before a police officer tackles her to the ground.

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The Mirror reports, she said she did it because of her husband’s ‘betrayal’.

The Moscow Investigative Committee said in a statement, that the woman have been placed in psychiatric care.

“According to preliminary information, 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 infant, set fire to the flat and left the scene,” the statement read.

The nanny has been named by Russian media as Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan. Russia’s Life News reports that the victim was a little girl, now named as Nastya M.

Although local media reported the woman shouted “I am a terrorist”, police do not believe the incident is terror related.

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