The Shahidka , commonly called the " Black widows " are a group of Islamist Chechen separatist suicide bombers . Khava Barayeva blew herself up at a Russian Army outpost in June 7 , 2000 . In 2001 , Aiza Gazuyeva killed Russian general Gaidar Gadzhiyev in a suicide bombing , the first female suicide bomber of the Chechen insurgency . The group carried out the Moscow theater hostage crisis and some were involved in the Beslan school siege . A bombing that killed 10 people at Rizhskaya metro station in Moscow was thought to be carried out by a woman who was identified as a Beslan school captor . The 2004 Russian aircraft bombings are believed to be carried out by female bombers . Two of the perpetrators of the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings were women ; Dzhanet Abdullayeva , who was married to a militant , and Maryam Sharipova . The October 2013 Volgograd bus bombing was carried out by a woman
Moscow theater hostage crisis
Moscow theater hostage crisis
Female suicide bomber