YEREVAN. – A call was received, on Friday at 11:50am, informing that an apartment was on fire in a building in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan. 

At 11:55am, a call was received from the emergency medical service, according to which the dead body of a suffocated woman was found in the apartment.    

The operative team, which was dispatched to the scene, discovered the dead body of Hripsik Torosyan (born in 1938) on kitchen floor of the apartment, the Police department of media informs.  

But it was found out that there was no fire in the apartment, whereas the smoke was caused by the burning food in the saucepan on a natural gas cooker.  

No traces of violence were found on the body, a forensic medical examination is commissioned, and an investigation is launched.