Bodies of two missing 12-year-old girls found in Russia

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.