Police find charred remains in hunt for missing boys

Police in a Siberian city have found the charred remains of several children and suspect they may be those of five boys who went missing in April, ending a massive three-week search, a regional prosecutor said today.

The Krasnoyarsk region’s chief prosecutor Viktor Grin, said in televised remarks that investigators had found among the remains a key from the apartment of one of the missing schoolchildren, who were aged from 9 to 12 and disappeared on April 16.