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Suspect Arrested in Slaying of American Teacher in Abu Dhabi
This image made from video released by the Abu Dhabi police department on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014 shows a veiled suspect in the stabbing of an American teacher in a shopping mall restroom as seen on security camera footage in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. A statement posted on the Abu Dhabi Interior Ministry's website said the victim was stabbed Monday with a sharp tool that has been confiscated by police. Col. Rashid Borshid, head of the Criminal Investigation Department, said the attacker remains at large. He said police are investigating possible motives and the gender of the attacker. (AP Photo/Abu Dhabi police)

Suspect Arrested in Slaying of American Teacher in Abu Dhabi

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The United Arab Emirates' interior minister said Thursday that police have arrested a female suspect in the stabbing death of an American schoolteacher in the country's capital and revealed that the attacker also planted a bomb outside the home of another American.

Interior Minister Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan said the makeshift bomb was left at the house of an American doctor and that police dismantled it after it was discovered by one of the physician's sons.

This image made from video released by the Abu Dhabi police department on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014 shows a veiled suspect in the stabbing of an American teacher in a shopping mall restroom as seen on security camera footage in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. A statement posted on the Abu Dhabi Interior Ministry's website said the victim was stabbed Monday with a sharp tool that has been confiscated by police. Col. Rashid Borshid, head of the Criminal Investigation Department, said the attacker remains at large. He said police are investigating possible motives and the gender of the attacker. (AP Photo/Abu Dhabi police) This image made from video released by the Abu Dhabi police department on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014 shows a veiled suspect in the stabbing of an American teacher in a shopping mall restroom as seen on security camera footage in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. A statement posted on the Abu Dhabi Interior Ministry's website said the victim was stabbed Monday with a sharp tool that has been confiscated by police. (AP Photo/Abu Dhabi police)

Word of the gruesome killing in a public restroom at a mall in Abu Dhabi has rattled the Emirates, a Western-allied, seven-state Gulf federation that includes the glitzy commercial hub of Dubai. It is home to a large foreign-born population, who far outnumber Emirati citizens.

Police say the teacher was stabbed to death by a butcher's knife-wielding attacker wearing the full black veil commonly worn by women throughout the Gulf Arab region.

Footprints Recruiting, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based teacher recruitment company that found a job for the victim, identified her as Ibolya Ryan.

"We await the results of the ongoing police investigation before making conclusions about why this senseless tragedy occurred," the company said. "We are confident that the UAE in general and Abu Dhabi in particular remains a safe environment in which to live and work."

Police earlier said the victim had 11-year-old twins and that they were being kept in protective custody until their father, who is the victim's ex-husband, arrived in the country.

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