Dagestani man identifies Moscow Metro bomber as his daughter
--theVoiceofRussia--
Apr 5, 2010 09:35 Moscow Time

A resident of Dagestan has identified the bomber that set off an explosive device at the Lubyanka Moscow Metro station a week ago as his daughter. The Moscow-based Kommersant daily reports that a secondary school teacher Rasul Magomedov has pointed out the fact in a written statement for the Dagestan Prosecutor’s Office. Magomedov says that his daughter Maryam Sharipova and her mother went to a Makhachkala marketplace a day before the March 28th terrorist attacks, and then she went to visit her friend and has since failed to return home. Magomedov’s relatives and other residents of their village identified the girl in the photos that were made public on the Internet. On Sunday blood specimens were taken from the teacher and his wife for DNA-testing. Rasul Magomedov described his daughter as a pious, although not a radically-minded person. She taught information science in the very same school where her parents have worked all their life. Maryam Sharipova’s brother Ilyas was earlier arrested on charges of illegal keeping of a hand grenade, abducting a person and involvement with illegal armed groups, but was acquitted on all points, save for the first one. Now that a week has passed since the Metro blasts, 81 victims of the acts of terror are still at Russian capital hospitals. According to the Emergencies Ministry, over 120 people were injured in the attacks on the Lubyanka and Park Kultury Moscow Metro stations, while the death toll has reached 40.