Investigators Open Negligent Death Cases in Kursk Garage Tragedy and Saratov House Fire

Overview

• Kursk region investigators opened a criminal case under Part 3, Article 109 after four young adults were found dead in a Zheleznogorsk garage.
• Regional updates say two 20-year-old men and women aged 22 and 28 had been drinking in a car with the engine running inside a closed space, with carbon monoxide poisoning cited as a preliminary cause.
• The bodies in the Kursk case were sent for autopsy, and a complex set of investigative actions is underway to establish the full circumstances.
• In Saratov region, a separate case was opened after a nighttime fire in a private house in Ershov killed two adults and two children aged 4 and 15, while a 19-year-old survived.
• Saratov investigators inspected the scene, ordered forensic examinations, and said the probe is under the supervision of regional investigation head Dmitriy Kostin.