A court in Russia's Siberian region has ordered the arrest of two teenagers on charges of killing a homeless man by throwing him off a bridge for “fun,” a news report said Monday.
The suspects, a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, told police after their detention that they wanted to “have fun” by throwing the man off a bridge in Krasnoyarsk, a spokesperson for the regional branch of the Investigative Committee said, regional NewsBabr website reported.
The suspects had reportedly been drinking and wandering the city streets in the hours leading up to the attack at 5 a.m. last Thursday, the report said.
The homeless man died at the scene after being thrown off a pedestrian bridge into a ravine, NewsBabr reported.
Another teenage girl watched the attack, but did not take part, NewsBabr reported.
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