Woman, 85, found ‘mummified and skeletal’ after lying dead in flat for 14 YEARS as cops search for relatives

A WOMAN has been found “mummified and skeletal” after lying dead in a flat for fourteen years.

The police are now searching for the woman’s relatives to identify her and establish how she may have died.

SolarpixThe woman was found at a flat in Malaga[/caption] SolarpixThe police are now searching for her relatives[/caption]

The grim discovery was made by a squatter who broke into the flat in Malaga with his 11-year-old daughter.

After finding the body, the pair alerted the neighbours.

The police suspect the woman was around 85 years old when she died.

Although she has not been fully identified it is thought she passed away shortly after losing her husband.

Initial tests by forensic experts suggest that the woman died around 14 years ago.

Her body was in the final stage of decomposition, known as skeletonization.

Skeletonization occurs when a corpse’s soft tissues have decayed or dried to the point that the skeleton is exposed.

The apartment block where her body was found has a high rotation of residents.

And it is unlikely that residents would have smelled the rotting corpse due to the windows being open.

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