Updated: Police arrest nanny carrying child’s severed head

The nanny beheaded the four-year-old girl in her care before walking through Moscow carrying the child’s severed head, police say.

The woman shouted “Allahu Akbar” meaning God is great as she approached a metro station in Moscow and threatened to blow herself up, reports say.

She was seen pulling the severed head out of a bag and walking around near the entrance of the station, witnesses say.

Hours earlier, police had found the headless body of a little girl when they were called to a fire at a block of flats in the city.

A journalist working for RBC daily, said she had heard the woman screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Great).

‘I was on my way to the metro station from home,’ Polina Nikolskaya said.

‘She was standing near the metro entrance and caught my attention because she was screaming Allahu Akbar.

‘I saw that she had a bloodied head in her arms, but I thought it was not real. People in the crowd said it was real.’

The victim was a girl identified as Nastya M – and the child’s 38-year-old nanny Gyulchehra Bobokulova, from Uzbekistan, has been arrested, Dailymail reports.

Local media reports have it that she told police she killed the girl because of her own husband’s infidelity and that a psychiatric test had been ordered for the woman in a bid to understand her motives.

The nanny reportedly waited till she was alone with the girl, murdered her and set the house on fire before leaving with the girl’s head..