In the Osipovichi district during underwater hunting, a man found the body of a fisherman missing

During an underwater hunt in the Berezina River in the agro-town of Krasnoye, Osipovichi district, a man discovered the body of an unknown person in the water and reported it to the police. This was told to the sb.by correspondent by the official representative of the Department of the State Committee for Forensic Examinations in the Mogilev region Irina Rachkovskaya.

The body removed from the river lay in the water for a long time and changed greatly, there were no documents with him, it was not possible to identify him. There was speculation that it could be a 45-year-old bobruychan, who disappeared in December 2025. Then he and a fellow countryman came to Osipovichi district to his brother, and in the evening after drinking alcohol went to the river to fish, but did not return. The next morning they found only a boat with fishing gear. For several months, the fate of the fisherman remained unknown.

On this fact, the Osipovichi district department of the Investigative Committee conducted an inspection. Forensic examinations were ordered to establish the identity of the deceased and the cause of death.

Biologists of the Department of the State Committee of Forensic Examinations in the Mogilev region investigated the biological material of the deceased and biological samples of the brother of the missing person. The identified matches of Y-chromosomal DNA pointed to the kinship of both along the male line. The results of genetic examination allowed to confirm that the deceased was a missing fisherman.

Signs indicating the criminal nature of the death, experts have not established. Forensic experts of the Bobruisk Interdistrict Department of GKSE began conducting ballistic examinations