Overview
- Investigators report the stabbing happened during a conflict between minors on school grounds in Tuva’s Barun-Khemchiksky District.
- The suspect is a 17-year-old first-year student at the Ak-Dovurak mining technical college and a former classmate of the victim, according to police.
- The victim died at the scene from his injuries, the Investigative Committee said.
- A murder case has been opened under Part 1, Article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code, with a forensic examination ordered and investigative actions ongoing.
- Tuva’s education ministry began a service investigation and sent an interagency working group, and an emergency meeting of the commission on juvenile affairs was convened.