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On 2 August 2014, regional bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee got a report that a 4-year-old girl had gone missing in the village of Olom, Olyokminsk District, Yakutia.

The head, an investigator and a criminologist of the regional investigations directorate, officers of the Russian Interior Ministry and Ministry of Emergency Situations set off for the scene. They are carrying out initial operations to find out all the circumstances of the incident.

It is known that the village of Olom is located 100 km from the district center and there is no way to get there in summer. The village has three houses with 8 people living there. According to preliminary information on the day when she went missing, the girl was under her grandmother’s care, who was sleeping in the house, the girl’s mother was not at home. The girl had gone missing on 29 July, but the woman had not reported it to the police as was sure that her father, living in a neighboring village, had taken her. On 2 August the woman found that her husband had not taken the child and then reported her daughter missing.

Due to the fact that there was no information about the girl for a long time and to find out all the circumstances of her disappearance the investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) opened a criminal case over a crime under paragraph “c” of part 2 of article 105 of the RF Penal Code (murder of a person in knowingly helpless condition).