“On January 5, 2020, on the balcony of an apartment in a residential building located in the city of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, the body of a young boy was found without any external signs of violent death. According to this fact, the investigating authorities ... instituted criminal proceedings, ”RIA Novosti quoted the investigators as saying.

The department did not specify on what article the case was opened.

Earlier, a case was opened in Ulyanovsk after the death of a child during a game of hide and seek.