24 October 2011, 22:20
Contract soldier dies in Karachay-Cherkessia
The investigatory division of the Army Unit No. 10732 is studying the circumstances of the death of the soldier who took his service under contract to the mountain-rifle brigade of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) deployed in the village of Zelenchukskaya in Karachay-Cherkessia.
"The soldier died in a fall from the roof of a five-story building. We consider several versions, suicide among them," said Maxim Loschin, the head of the investigatory division.
The incident occurred the evening of October 22, but the information about the death of the contract soldier in Zelenchukskaya appeared only today, the "RIA Novosti" reports.