2nd Moscow bomber identified as teacher

The second female bomber who attacked Moscow's subway last Monday has been identified as a young teacher from Russia's Dagestan region.

The family of the bomber recognized their 28-year-old daughter, Mariam Magomedov, from photographs released by the police, Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported Sunday.

Her father has told authorities that Mariam, who taught computer science at a local school, had gone missing the day before the attacks.

She had allegedly told her mother that she was going to visit a friend. The couple had not heard from her since.

Mariam who lived with her parents in the village of Balakhani in Dagestan, was never known to show extremist views or unusual behavior, her father said.

The March 29 twin attacks on central Moscow stations, Lubyanka and Park Kultury, left 40 people dead and at least 90 others wounded.

Russian prosecutors have already identified the other woman behind the attacks as the 17-year-old widow of a slain rebel from the troubled Dagestan region in the North Caucasus.

Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova was married to Umalat Magomedov, an alleged militant leader killed by Russian government forces in December.

Only two days after the massive Moscow bombings, twin blasts in the Dagestani town of Kizylar killed 12 people including nine policemen.

On the fourth of April, another explosion derailed a freight train in Dagestan without causing casualties.

Russian officials have linked the blasts to the Moscow bombings.

In a video message posted on a Chechen rebel website last Wednesday, rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for that attack.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122473§ionid=351020602.