Teen's body found in pool pump

MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Workers at a water park in central Russia have found the body of a 14-year-old boy in a swimming pool pump chamber three weeks after he went missing, Russian newspapers reported on Monday.

Staff at the amusement park in the city of Kazan checked the pump on Saturday evening because it had been spewing out cloudy water and not working as normal, the Kommersant newspaper said. Inside the pump chamber, workers found Sergei Matveyev's body.

Prosecutors believe Matveyev may have been sucked through a faulty grille into the chamber while diving underwater when he and his family visited the park on July 2, the daily said.

An extensive search failed to find Matveyev and until the body was discovered, police believed he had been kidnapped. E-mail to a friend

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