Bodies of Missing 12-Year-Old Girls Found in Siberia’s Yenisei River

Bodies of two missing 12-year-old girls found in Russia

Both 12-year-old girls who had gone missing in Tuva on July 1 were found dead. On the morning of July 9, the regional office of Russia’s federal Investigative Committee reported that a body believed to be one of the girls had been recovered on the bank of the Yenisei River near the village of Sukpak in the Kyzyl district. Shortly afterward, the Investigative Committee announced that the second girl’s body had also been found. The agency has provided no information about the possible cause of the children’s deaths.

Child drowns in Lake Michigan, dangerous conditions injure three rescue divers, Indiana

Search for a missing 13-year-old boy in Lake Michigan ended on June 23, 2026 when responders recovered his body from 3.5 m (11 feet) of water, following an operation that left four divers injured amid dangerous water conditions prompting an overnight suspension of the search. Source

Missing Girls in Tuva: Search Expands After Phones Found Near Yenisei River

The search for two missing girls in Russia's Tuva Republic has entered its fifth day. Volunteers attempted to enter a house where they believed the children might be located. Officers from the Russian National Guard, police, and the regional interior minister later arrived at the scene. The search continues for the 12-year-old and 13-year-old schoolgirls, who disappeared on the evening of July 1 after going for a walk. More than 700 volunteers have joined the operation.

A New Discovery Just Proved Plague Was Killing People 5,500 Years Ago — Long Before Rats Cities or the Black Death Even Existed

A June 18, 2026 Nature study found Yersinia pestis in 39 of hunter-gatherer remains near Lake Baikal, Siberia, dating 5,500 years ago — centuries before urban or rat-based transmission.

Neighbor arrested after girl, 11, vanishes during boat trip on Lake Erie, other passenger found dead

An Ohio woman was arrested after her young neighbor vanished during a boating trip on Lake Erie — with another passenger shockingly found dead in the water the next day, according to reports. Angelique Cunningham, 11, disappeared while boating on the western basin of the picturesque lake on Wednesday night with her neighbor, Kristen Gerrie, []