A woman has been filmed brandishing the severed head of a child outside a Moscow metro station.
Russian media posted videos of the woman dressed in black, wandering around, holding the child's head in the air and shouting about the end of the world and claiming to be a "terrorist".
A reporter from RBC TV said she had heard the woman screaming "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great), although much of what is said in the video footage is incomprehensible.
Polina Nikolskaya, the reporter, 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."
Lifenews.ru, an online news service with close ties to the police, said a police officer had approached the woman to check her documents but she had taken the head from a bag and started shouting that she had killed the child.
Police say they have arrested a nanny from Central Asia and she has been charged with murdering a child in her care.
Interfax news agency named her as Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, 38.
The motive for the crime is not known but police are not treating it as terror-related and the woman is undergoing psychiatric tests.
Officials said the body of a child aged three or four years with "signs of violent death" was found earlier on Monday in an apartment in northwest Moscow.
They said: "According to preliminary information, the child's nanny - a native of one of the Central Asian countries, born in 1977 - waited until the parents left the apartment with their elder child and, guided by unknown motives, killed the little one, set the apartment on fire and left the scene."
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