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Posted: 2016-02-29 12:19:02

A woman holding a child's severed head at a busy Moscow metro station has been arrested and charged with murdering a young child in her care.

The woman, suspected of having psychological problems, was shouting "I am a terrorist" in Russian and threatened to blow herself up, according to local news reports. 

In footage purportedly of the incident posted online, the woman is seen dressed in black near an entrance to Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in northwest Moscow.

A woman is in custody after allegedly brandishing the head of a child near a metro station in Moscow on Monday.

A woman is in custody after allegedly brandishing the head of a child near a metro station in Moscow on Monday. Photo: Youtube

According to witness reports, the unidentified woman pulled the severed head out of her bag shouting "I killed a child" and "I am a terrorist," RT news reported. 

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Russia's Interior Ministry confirmed that the woman had been holding a real human head of a child, thought to be four year's old. 

The woman aged in her late 30s originally from Uzbekistan was walking around the entrance to the metro for about an hour. She appeared to be disoriented. She was wrestled to the ground by police. 

Earlier on Sunday (Moscow local time), police said a child's headless body had been found in an apartment block near the same metro station that had been set on fire.

Rescuers recovered the body of a child between three or four-years-old after they had extinguished a fire raging in an apartment block, Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The suspect waited until the child's parents left the apartment with an older child, then killed the child and set the apartment on fire, the Investigative Committee said in a Russian-language statement. 

Officials said the woman was working as a nanny and allegedly murdered the child while her parents were not at home, according to the report. 

"According to preliminary data, the child's nanny - a citizen of one of the Central Asian states, born in 1977 - waited until the parents left the apartment with their older child, [and] for unknown reasons, committed the murder of a minor, set fire to the apartment and left the scene," according to a English translation of the Investigative Committee statement. 

The girl was identified as Nastya M., according to LifeNews. 

During questioning while in custody she said the motive for the murder was her husband's infidelity, according to RT.

A police report suggested the woman may have taken some form or narcotics prior to the incident, the news site reported.

The woman is being detained for a forensic psychiatric examination. 

A criminal investigation is continuing.

More to come. 

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