The Region in Brief

Armenia

The bodies of a 31-year-old woman and her two children were found in their home in Pemzashen village in the Shirak province of Armenia. Shirak’s prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal investigation on charges of murder, including murder of a minor. Shirak prosecutor Gurgen Grigoryan said the murders were carried out using a “sharp tool that could cut and pierce.” Grigoryan said that the woman’s husband is currently working abroad, yet “everything is being inspected.”