An American kindergarten teacher was stabbed to death in an Abu Dhabi shopping mall, apparently by an attacker seen in a surveillance video wearing a black robe and veil, police in the United Arab Emirates said Wednesday. The victim of the Monday attack was identified as Ibolya Ryan, 47, the mother of 11-year-old twins. The murder came weeks after U.S. embassies in the Middle East were warned of a posting on an Islamist terrorist website calling for attacks on American teachers in the Middle East.
UPDATE: The interior minister of the UAE announced today that police arrested a 38-year-old female suspect in the killing. She is reportedly a UAE citizen and has also been accused of trying to plant a bomb at an American doctor's home in Abu Dhabi.
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