A criminal case was opened after the death of a 15-year-old girl in the Murmansk region.

In the Murmansk region, a 15-year-old girl drowned due to the current in the river. A criminal case has been opened into the death of a teenager.

The incident occurred on the evening of August 4 in Shongui. The girl was swimming in the Kola River, and at some point she began to drift away. Eyewitnesses pulled the teenager out of the water, but doctors pronounced the minor dead. The Bi-port news agency writes about this.

Investigators are interviewing witnesses to the incident. The exact cause of the girl's death will be determined during a forensic medical examination. The criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Causing death by negligence").

In the Irkutsk region, a 41-year-old man drowned while rescuing his son who had fallen into the water. A father and a 13-year-old boy rented a catamaran, but they did not have life jackets.

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