A resident of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic/NKR) was found dead on March 3, at a hotel in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.

At around 12:30pm on that day, police received a call that there was a dead man’s body in a guestroom of a hotel complex in Yerevan, according to shamshyan.com.

Police arrived at the scene and found the dead body of Artyom Karapetyan, 40, a resident of Artsakh, in a guestroom of the said hotel.

The forensic doctor’s external examination detected no traces of violence on the corpse.

But police found two empty syringes on a table of this guestroom, and there was light brown powder in a pocket of this man’s pants.

Police are preparing a report on this incident.