One of Moscow Metro bomber identified

Investigators have identified one of suicide bomber who blew herself up in one of the two Moscow Metro attacks.

Investigators have identified the suicide bomber who blew herself up in one of the two Moscow Metro attacks on Monday as a woman hailing from the restive Daghestan region,with reports saying that she could be a widow of a slain rebel leader.

The bomber,who has been identified,had targetted the Park Kultury metro station in the second of the two bomb attacks that killed 12 of the total 39 people killed on Monday.

“At the moment only the suicide bomber who set off a bomb at the Park Kultury metro station has been identified. She is a resident of Daghestan”,an unnamed security official of the North Caucasus federal District was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.

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However,her name was not revealed in the interest of the investigation,it said.

Park Kultury metro station was bombed 40 minutes after the attack on Lubyanka,which is located under the ex-KGB headquarters,now occupied by FSB security service.

Leading daily Kommersant on Thursday said that according to one of line of investigation,a younger woman who attacked Lubyanka metro was Markha Ustarkhanova,a 20 year-old widow of Said-Amin Khizirov,a rebel leader who was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in October.

Thirty-nine people were killed and over 80 injured in the March 29 twin blasts during the morning rush hour.

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Earlier,during President Dmitry Medvedev’s five hour surprise visit to Daghestani capital Makhachkala,FSB director Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting with the regional officials that some arrests have been made in connection with both Moscow and Kizlyar terror attacks.

Wednesday’s twin suicide blasts in the town of Kizlyar,near the boundary with Chechnya,had claimed 12 lives and left about 30 people injured.