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Russia Checking if Two Adopted Kids Among US Shooting Victims

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The Russian Foreign Ministry is concerned about media reports on the recent shooting in the United States that allegedly involved two adopted children from Russia, the information has been verifying, the ministry's special envoy for human rights, democracy and the rule of law said Saturday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) On Friday, an unknown man in the state of Washington called the police and reported that he had shot two children, a woman and another person. The man shot himself hours after police had arrived. One child managed to escape, the girl has been hospitalized. According to media reports, two adopted children from Russia are likely to be among the victims of the incident.

"We are greatly concerned about the media reports that a US adoptive father shot two adopted children from Russia. Now we are checking the information," Konstantin Dolgov posted to Twitter.

The Russian Federation Council, or the upper house of the country's parliament, has also said it is monitoring the developments of the investigation on the shooting.

Since January 2013, US citizens are banned from the adoption of Russian children under the law, which also marked the withdrawal of Moscow from a US-Russian agreement on cooperation in child adoptions concluded in 2011.

The measure is also known as the Dima Yakovlev Law, named after a Russian toddler who died in the United States in 2008 after being locked in a car by his adoptive father, a US citizen.

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