Armenia Police have opened a criminal case on the murder of Gyumri resident Tsoghik Madoyan, 84, and the suicide of Karine Madoyan, 56, another Gyumri resident, according to shamshyan.com.

On September 26, the police received a call from the Gyumri ambulance station that the aforesaid two women had been taken to a hospital from a building in the city.

On October 2, Tsoghik Madoyan died at Gyumri Medical Center—and without regaining consciousness.

During the preparation of the respective materials, some circumstances surfaced, after which a criminal case was launched on charges of murder and suicide.

It turned out that Karine Madoyan, who is the dead woman's daughter, had given a large amount of psychotropic drugs to her mother, after which she also had taken some of these drugs and tried to commit suicide.