The case was initiated after the death of a teenager due to snow falling from a canopy in Moscow.

A criminal case was opened after the death of a teenager as a result of snow falling from the canopy over the balcony of the last floor of a private house in Moscow. This was reported in the official channel of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Max messenger on Friday, February 13.

The Izmailovo interdistrict investigative Department of the Investigative Department for the Eastern Administrative District of the GSU of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow has opened a case into the death of a boy born in 2011 as a result of snow falling from a canopy over a balcony on Shchelkovsky Highway.

"Currently, investigators and criminologists of the Moscow Investigative Committee are examining the scene, a complex of investigative actions is being carried out aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident," the Moscow City News agency quoted the message.

The prosecutor's office took over the investigation of the circumstances of the teenager's death.

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Earlier in the day, the Prefecture of the Eastern Administrative District (VAO) reported that a child was crushed by snow on the Shchelkovsky highway in Moscow, IA Regnum reports.

The snowfall occurred from an unauthorized canopy over the balcony of the last floor of an apartment building. As a result of the injuries, the child died, according to 360.ru .

Earlier that day, five children were injured as a result of falling snow from the roof of a house in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Nizhny Novgorod. A criminal case was opened into the incident under Part 1 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements").

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