Search underway in Siberia for missing US student
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A Russian search is underway for a U.S. student officials say disappeared in freezing conditions after venturing from a guest house in Siberia.
Investigators in the Russian republic of Buryatia say 25-year-old Colin Madsen of Jefferson City, Missouri, went missing early Sunday. That's a day after he arrived with another American as part of a group from Irkutsk, where he was a university student.
Annie Madsen of Markle, Indiana, said Wednesday her nephew apparently left the house without a coat to take a walk in below-freezing temperatures while others in the guest house slept.
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She says his mother from Missouri and his father from Indiana are heading to Russia.
The aunt says her nephew is fluent in Russian and has taught English there.