One Moscow subway bomber identified

MOSCOW, April 2 (UPI) -- Investigators said one of two female suicide bombers in Moscow subway attacks that killed 39 people this week was the teenage widow of an insurgent leader.

Officials said Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, 17, was the wife of Umalat Magomedov, who was killed by Russian forces lin December, The New York Times reported Friday.

Investigators told RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, the woman was from Dagestan, a Muslim region near Chechnya.

"At the moment only the suicide bomber who set off a bomb at the Park Kultury metro station has been identified," an official said.

On Monday, explosions at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations during the morning rush hou killed 39 people and injured dozens more.

Two explosions Wednesday in Kizlyar, near Dagestan's border with Chechnya, killed 12 people and left 29 people injured.

On Thursday, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev called for harsher tactics to combat the insurgency. Medvedev convened a meeting of regional leaders and senior security advisers in Dagestan.

Despite success in recent years to quell violence and capture militant leaders, Medvedev said, "apparently it was not enough. But in due time we will find and punish them all. Just like their predecessors."

He said people from the Caucasus region should not be discriminated against or persecuted, the Times reported.

"Everyone must understand -- and not just understand but use the appropriate terminology -- that people who live here in the Caucasus are the citizens of our nation, not 'immigrants' from the North Caucasus," Medvedev said.