An
Emirate woman arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a U.S.
teacher in a bathroom at a United Arab Emirates mall is also accused of placing
a handmade bomb in front of an American doctor's house, the country's interior
minister said Thursday.
Police
arrested the woman, identified only as 30 years old and a UAE national,
Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan said.
More
details about the arrest weren't immediately available. Continue...
Police
said a veiled woman stabbed American schoolteacher Ibolya Ryan, 47, during a
fight in a restroom at the high-end Boutik Mall on Reem Island on Monday.
The
alleged attacker was fully covered, donning an abaya -- a black, full-length
gown traditionally worn by Emirati women -- black gloves, a face cover and a
hijab, or head scarf, police said. She fled the mall after the attack.
Police
believe Ryan, who was married with 11-year-old twins, did not know the
attacker, Al Nahyan said.
Later
Monday, the suspect placed a primitive bomb in front of a house where an
American Muslim doctor lives, said Al Nahyan, adding that authorities had video
of the event.
The
doctor's son saw the object and called police, Al Nahyan said. Police defused
the device.
Investigators
believe that the attacker wanted to create chaos and spread fear, Al Nahyan
said. He didn't discuss possible motives beyond that.
Al Nahyan
didn't say what led police to identify and arrest the suspect.
Surveillance
video released by police shows the moments before and after the mall stabbing.
A veiled figure that police identified as the attacker walks calmly in through
a parking lot entrance, speaking to security guards, picking up a paper and
disappearing around the corner out of sight.
The video
later shows the suspect running to an elevator and then leaving the mall
through the same parking lot doors.
The U.S.
Embassy in Abu Dhabi issued a statement, back in October, warning U.S. citizens
of an anonymous Internet post that encouraged attacks against teachers at
American and other international schools.
The
embassy was unaware of any specific, credible threat at that time, but called
on citizens to be vigilant about their personal security.
Reem
Island is a newly developed area of Abu Dhabi where many Western expatriates
live.
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