Father recognizes Moscow suicide bomber as his studious daughter
MOSCOW. April 5. KAZINFORM A resident of Dagestan has claimed that he recognizes one of the women who carried out the terrorist attacks on the Moscow metro as his daughter Mariam Sharipova, the Moscow weekly Novaya Gazeta reported.
On Monday, March 29, twin blasts at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations occurred during the morning rush hour, leaving 40 people dead and dozens injured.
Rasul Magomedov said that a friend sent him a photo published on the Internet of the suicide bomber, allegedly responsible for the attack at Lubyanka metro station, with the words "she was on the metro."
"My wife and I recognized our daughter immediately," Magomedov said, adding that he and his wife had not known where their daughter was for several days.
"Last time my wife saw our daughter, she was wearing the same red headscarf as in the photo."
Magomedov gave a statement at the local prosecutor's office as soon as it opened on Saturday morning. Several others, including civil servants, told Novaya Gazeta that it was definitely Mariam in the photo.
Mariam was born in 1982 in Balakhan, a villiage in the Untsukul region of Dagestan. Her parents were both teachers at the local school. She studied math and psychology and graduated with distinction in 2005, before returning to Balakhan to teach computer science at the local school, RIA Novosti informs.
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