**The 17-year-old widow of a North Caucasus militant is suspected of being one of the suicide bombers who attacked the Moscow metro on Monday.**Police in southern Russia confirmed to the BBC that they had given Moscow colleagues information about Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, from Dagestan.
The morning rush-hour bombings killed 39 people and injured more than 70, most of whom are still in hospital.
Dagestan, like nearby Chechnya, is struggling to quell militant violence.
A police spokesman said Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova had been married to a leading Islamist militant who was killed by Russian security forces at the end of last year.
He would not confirm that she was definitely one of the metro bombers.
But a photograph of her published in a leading Russian newspaper, Kommersant, does bear a strong resemblance to a picture of the remains of one of the suicide bombers, the BBC’s Richard Galpin reports from Moscow.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.