But then, a second story appeared. Similar circumstances. This time in Yakutsk, some three thousand miles east of St Petersburg. There, a mother, by all accounts ‘stable’, buried her children alive in the family’s garden before taking her own life with the jagged edges of broken dishes. And a third story, in Omsk, Russia, nearly two thousand miles southeast of St Petersburg, sprouted online and quickly became one of the most discussed topics on all social media sites. This time there was video footage. For as long as she could, Malorie had watched a man wielding an axe, his beard red with
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