MOSCOW, January 17 (Itar-Tass) – Police in the town of Suvorovo, the Tula region, are searching for four schoolchildren who went missing in the forest after skiing, the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry reports.

"Police in Suvorovo have been put on alert to look for the missing children,” the Ministry’s source told Itar-Tass.

A duty police officer received a phone call at about 18:10 Moscow time that seven-graders from school No. 2 had skied in the local forest and four schoolboys aged 13-14 hadn’t shown up at an assembly place after skiing.