Lithuanian girl suspected of involvement in Moscow metro attacks

The girl named Egle was detained at Vilnius international airport, from where she intended to fly out for Moscow the day before the March 29 attacks.

Written information about explosive devices and their use and Moscow metro maps were found in her luggage. However, as the Lietuvos Rytas newspaper reported on Saturday, the things only confirmed the suspicions, and the Klaipeda resident was detained as a result of a joint operation of Russian and Lithuanian security services.

The newspaper wrote about Egle that the girl, a good second-year student of a construction school, in 2007 had a friend -- a Chechen young man residing in Lithuania, who returned to his native land and died there. Soon after that she disappeared and six months later was found in a small German town, where she lived in a Chechen family as a housemaid, slept in a poor room and prayed all days long. Earlier Egle said she would like to adopt Islam. When German police paid attention to the situation, the family immediately disappeared, and the girl returned home.

The Lithuanian is in custody at present. An investigation into her case is underway; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.