"On December 26, 2020, the law enforcement agencies of the republic received a message that a 37-year-old resident of the city of Ufa, after a quarrel with his wife, left in an unknown direction in his car with a 6-year-old son and one-year-old daughter," the ICU in the region said.

It is noted that the bodies were subsequently found in the car without visible injuries and with traces of carbon monoxide poisoning.

An investigative and operational group is working at the scene.

On December 19, the body of the missing man was found in the Stavropol forest with traces of violent death.