A nine-year-old child died strangled by the scarf from his neck as a result of an incident that occurred in Mitoc village of Orhei district.

Press officer of the Orhei Police Inspectorate Irina Burdujan has told IPN that the police were alerted by the son of the owner of the house where the tragedy happened. The child went together with his father to a villager to grind grains at an improvised mill. While his father was putting the grinded products in sacks, the child bended to look at the grinding mechanism and the end of his scarf was drawn inside and he was thus strangled.

The police in Orhei opened an investigation to establish all the circumstances of this case.