“According to preliminary data, in the morning of January 22, 2022, in one of the houses in the village of Yuryevka, Pavlograd district, the bodies of a man, a woman, and a minor born in 2011 were found with signs of violent death — stab wounds,” the ministry said in a statement.

A criminal case has been initiated under the article on the murder of two or more persons.

Earlier, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case after the discovery of the body of a one and a half year old child with stab wounds in the entrance of one of the hostels in Kislovodsk.