MOSCOW, Aug 27 (AFP) - Remains of a female passenger thought to be a resident of Chechnya who was aboard one of two Russian planes that crashed this week were being closely examined for traces of explosive, a Russian official said Friday.
A spokeswoman for the emergency situations ministry named the woman as Amanta Nagayeva and said preliminary investigation indicated that she was a resident of the Chechen capital, Grozny.
Her body was the last of 44 corpses to be found scattered around the wreckage of one of the planes and it appeared more badly damaged that any of the others, the spokeswoman, Elena Butyrina, told AFP by telephone from the central city of Tula.
One of the victim's legs was found in the toilets at the rear of the aircraft and other parts of her body were discovered in an area 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) away, Butyrina said.
Russian investigators announced earlier Friday that they had found traces of a powerful explosive, Hexogen, in the wreckage of one of the planes.
They also said they were looking for information on another female passenger aboard the other plane, identified by Russian news agencies only by her family name, Djebirkhanova, also thought to be of Chechen origin.
Interest in the two women was heightened by the fact that no family or friends had yet come forward to identify their bodies.