Islamist group member suspected of Moscow airport blast

A member of an Islamist group in southern Russia may be behind the Moscow airport attack in which 35 people died, BBC News said, citing bomb investigators' reports.

Vitaly Razdobudko, from Stavropol on the edge of the northern Caucasus, is reported to have either organised or carried out the attack.

The ethnic Russian is being linked to a 31 December explosion at a house in the centre of Moscow in which a woman died.

The authorities have made no official comment on their inquiry.

It is still not clear if a man or a woman was involved in Monday's attack in which a bomber detonated up to 7kg (15lb) of TNT at Domodedovo airport.

But Russian media say the suspect is being linked to Islamist group Nogai Jamaat (Nogai Battalion).

The woman who died in Moscow on New Year's Eve was found with the remains of a suicide belt, according to reports, and she was said to have been married to a militant from the group who was arrested last year.