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Bodies of Missing Boys Found

The St. Petersburg Times

MOSCOW — The bodies of two young boys who went missing in July have been discovered in the Moscow region, police said.

The bodies of Pavel Sokolov, 11, and Alexander Yelshin, 10, were discovered Friday evening near a forest close to the town of Kryukovo, Interfax reported, citing a police source. The cause of death has yet to be established, the source said.

The boys left their homes in the Moscow region town of Dedovsk on the afternoon of July 19, and their parents reported them missing the next day.

The badly decomposed body of Yelshin’s brother, Mikhail, 12, was found by day laborers near the village of Luzhki on July 29. Police have established that Alexander Yelshin and Sokolov took a commuter train to a pond near the village of Snegiri on July 19, and that Mikhail Yelshin left his home a few hours later.

Moskovsky Komsomolets, without citing any sources, suggested they might have died of alcohol poisoning.

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