Two children froze to death in the tundra of Yamal

In the tundra of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District), two young children died of hypothermia. This was reported on March 16 in the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the region.

"It was previously established that in the period from March 14 to March 15 of this year, two young children were left without heating facilities in the Novoportovsk tundra of the Yamal region, as a result of which they died from hypothermia," the department's Telegram channel clarifies.

A criminal case has been opened into causing death by negligence.

Investigators are examining the scene, interrogating the parents and clarifying all the circumstances of the incident.

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Earlier, on March 8, employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region found and interrogated the mother of a newborn child left on a bench in the cold in Nizhny Tagil on March 4. A criminal case was opened on this fact under Part 3 of art. 30, art. 106 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Attempted murder of a newborn"). The child's condition was not specified.