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A 9-year-old boy hanged himself in an orphanage in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic
The investigative authorities of Karachay-Cherkessia opened a criminal case on the fact of driving to suicide a 9-year-old pupil of a republican orphanage for orphans and children left without parental care Andrei Altukhov, reports the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Karachay-Cherkess Republic for the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
“According to the investigation, the corpse of a minor pupil was taken to the emergency department of the Ust-Dzhegutinsk Central District Hospital. A. Altukhov was found hanged in the toilet of a house for orphans and children without parental care,” the report says.
A preliminary forensic medical study established that the student’s death could have occurred as a result of strangulation; a strangulation groove was found on the neck, the department clarifies.
“Currently, all the necessary forensic examinations have been ordered, urgent investigative actions and measures are being carried out, and the causes that led to this tragedy are being established,” the press service notes.