MOSCOW, April 5, (RAPSI) – US citizen Colin Madsen, a 25-year old student of the Irkutsk Linguistics Institute, has been found dead today according to the 2nd search and rescue unit of the Buryatia search and rescue service. The student went missing on March 27, Interfax news agency reports.

"The tourist has been found dead two kilometers from the village of Arshan. Detectives are working at the scene," a unit representative said. According to the rescuer, Madsen might have frozen to death.

Colin Madsen, who was a fluent Russian speaker, together with his friends had visited this highland resort situated in the Tunkinskaya valley, in the foothills of the Eastern Sayan Mountains, 500 kilometers from Buryatia's capital city of Ulan Ude before, Russia Beyond The Headlines (RBTH) web-site informs.

According to the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee's republican department, detectives had examined the body and did not find any visible damage. ID and money were found on the body. A forensic medical examination will be carried out to establish the exact cause of death. The examination will be performed in Kyren by a group of experts from Ulan Ude, RBTH notes unwinding the Interfax story.

“Colin Madsen came to Arshan on vacation on March 26, 2016; he was travelling together with a fellow citizen and two residents of Irkutsk. The young men used drugs, but did not drink alcohol. There were no conflicts between them," RBTH reports citing the Buryatia department of the Russian Investigative Committee. The student was found missing at about 5 a.m. After conducting an unsuccessful search on their own, Madsen’s friends filed a statement with the police.

Local residents joined to the search to help the police and rescue teams; Russia’s EMERCOM used drones to observe hard-to-reach sites from above. The incident was televised by largest Russian broadcasters.