A woman was found drowned in the Spring of Miracles in the yard of the Saharna Monastery in Rezina district.

According to Irina Bejenaru, press officer of the Rezina Police Inspectorate, the police were informed about the body found on the territory of the monastery in the afternoon of May 31.

The 61-year-old woman, from Chisinau, had signs of violence on the body.

Irina Bejenaru has told IPN that the police established that the woman was accompanied at the monastery by a young man who turned out to be her son and this went away by a taxi.

The young man was identified in Orhei at about 4pm. A police inquiry is under way.

The Spring of Miracles is a tourist attraction of the Saharna Monastery whose water is said to be healing disease.