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Moscow Inter-Regional Transport Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation into signs of the crime under part 3 of article 263 of the RF Penal Code (violation of safety rules for traffic and operation of railway transport entailing by negligence death of two or more people) into the fatally injuring four young people near the railway station of Tushino.

According to investigators, about 12:09 AM, 16 November 2013, four young people from Moscow, two of them aged 21, and two others – 20 and 17, were fatally injured by a train travelling from Volokolamsk to Moscow at 13^th km of second main-line track of the span between the stations Tushino and Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo of Rizhsky line of Moscow Railways. A teenage of 16, who walked along the railways with the victims, was also delivered to Tushino town children’s hospital with hypertension.

Investigators have carried out urgent investigating operations, namely have examined the incident scenes in presence of the engine brigade, have examined the bodies and questioned the witnesses. In the near future it is planned to find the parents of the killed young people the victims and to question them as such, to assign necessary forensic, medical and technical examinations.

Investigation is ongoing.