10 September 2012, 22:40
Nine-year-old orphan boy hangs himself in Karachay-Cherkessia
Investigating authorities of Karachay-Cherkessia have opened a criminal case on incitement to suicide of Andrei Altukhov, 9, a pupil of the republic's children's home for orphans and children left without parental care.
According to investigators, the boy was found hanged in the toilet room of the orphanage. The body was brought to the reception of the Ust-Djegutin Central District Hospital.
Doctors have preliminarily determined that the pupil's death could be caused by strangling, as his neck has a strangulation furrow, says the website of the Investigatory Department for Karachay-Cherkessia of the ICRF.
Inspectors try to reveal the reasons of the tragedy, the "Rosbalt" writes.