Both 12-year-old girls who had gone missing in Tuva on July 1 were found dead. On the morning of July 9, the regional office of Russia’s federal Investigative Committee reported that a body believed to be one of the girls had been recovered on the bank of the Yenisei River near the village of Sukpak in the Kyzyl district. Shortly afterward, the Investigative Committee announced that the second girl’s body had also been found. The agency has provided no information about the possible cause of the children’s deaths.
The two girls left their home in Kyzyl on July 1, heading toward the embankment along the Yenisei River and a nearby dam. Police, the Emergency Situations Ministry, dog handlers, divers, and several hundred volunteers joined the search. Investigators had indicated the girls may have drowned: their mobile phones and shoes were found on the riverbank.
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