A three year old girl ‘froze to death’ at a nursery school today after her teacher ‘forgot to bring her inside after playtime’.
Zakhra Rzayeva’s body was found behind a high pile of snow in the playground of the Moscow kindergarten, according to reports.
The temperature was around minus five degrees Celsius outside the kindergarten.
A three year old girl ‘froze to death’ at a nursery school today after her teacher ‘forgot to bring her inside after playtime’, according to reports
‘Kindergarten teachers forgot a three-year-old girl outdoors after a walk,’ reported Mash news outlet citing sources in the nursery school, known as Kindergarten number 2120.
‘They remembered about her only two hours later.’
The kindergarten staff ‘rushed out’ to look for her.
‘The girl was found behind a snowdrift – she was dead.’
An ambulance was called but she was found to be dead.
A major investigation has been launched into the girl’s tragic death involving Russia’s Investigative Committee, which deals with serious crimes.
The temperature was around minus five degrees Celsius outside the kindergarten in Moscow where the child (pictured) was found dead
Zakhra Rzayeva’s body was reportedly found behind a high pile of snow in the playground
Teachers and staff were being interrogated.
The child’s parents Rizvan Rzayev and Gulnara Shakhadat were too distressed to speak.
Ramil Gadzhiyev, a friend of the family, said: ‘God forbid that any parents have to go through this.’
He said teachers had denied to him the child was outside alone for too long.
He was told that at 11am they went out to play.
‘At noon they have lunch,’ he said..
‘They noticed the child lying on the ground.
‘That’s what I heard when I asked them – but I don’t know what really happened.
‘Detective work will establish that.’
A major investigation has been launched into the girl’s tragic death involving Russia’s Investigative Committee, which deals with serious crimes
He claimed that the child had not been feeling well earlier this week.
‘Three days ago the girl’s mother noticed something strange with her daughter, her lips were swollen.
‘She liked going to the kindergarten but the she started saying she was afraid because of some teachers.
‘Today the teacher was one of two who the girl was afraid of.’
A source at the kindergarten declined to go into details but said the child was found lying in the snow and staff had tried unsuccessfully to revive her.