Overview
- Remains of an eight-year-old missing since 1997 were located in Kashira, and a 64-year-old local was charged with her murder and placed in custody.
- Investigators in Krasnoyarsk finished a probe into a February double killing in Achinsk, sent the file to prosecutors, and said the detained suspect confessed.
- Prosecutors opened a criminal case after a PAZ bus and a truck collided in Blagoveshchensk, injuring four people including a woman and a small child, while transport prosecutorates in Leningrad region launched checks into two derailments that caused delays but no injuries.
- A Moscow court sentenced a 51-year-old man to 17 years in a high-security colony for killing his infant grandson, with the verdict not yet final.
- In the Moscow region, investigators opened a hooliganism case over a school knife threat and are also probing a separate buggy crash by a 13-year-old that hospitalized two women, one in serious condition.