Volunteers from the North Caucasus helped in the search for a missing child in Chechnya

The body of a seven-year-old boy who went missing in Chechnya, and who had been searched for since August 8, was found in a river today. Volunteers from Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Stavropol, and Ingushetia helped rescuers and security forces in the search.

The body of a child who went missing in Chechnya was found today, Chechnya Today writes. As follows from the video published by the publication, one of the men swam to the shore holding the child's body in his arms. The men who had gathered along the river ran to the place where he came ashore.

The boy with special needs disappeared on the morning of August 8. According to preliminary data, the child climbed over the fence of his house and went in an unknown direction.

On August 12, a boy's slipper was found near the village of Pravoberezhnoye at the mouth of the Terek River; his shoes were found several dozen kilometers from the village of Verkhniy Naur, where he was last seen.

Volunteers from other regions took part in the search: Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Stavropol Krai. Dagestani volunteers arrived with their own equipment - they have six boats, which they are actively using in the search.

One of the volunteers who arrived from Dagestan, Zaurbek Dadov, said that the work on the water was carried out according to a clear plan, they searched "everywhere where it is possible to get closer by boat," the publication quoted him as saying.

In the Nadterechny District of Chechnya, a large-scale search for a seven-year-old child with special needs, who went missing on August 8 in the village of Verkhniy Naur, has been ongoing since March 8. The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, reported this morning that, on his instructions, thousands of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Russian National Guard, the Ministry of Defense and other departments were involved in the search. Volunteers who arrived from other regions and local residents took an active part. Thermal imagers, unmanned aerial vehicles, boats, a helicopter and other special equipment were involved in the work. The search was conducted around the clock, forests, the banks of the Terek River, fields and adjacent settlements were surveyed.

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