Woman's decomposing corpse found in garden of Airbnb rental in France
A woman's decomposing body was found hidden by branches and logs after a group of friends rented out a house near Paris on Sunday.
The group had rented the house from popular home-sharing website Airbnb for a party weekend in Palaiseau, 17 kilometres south of Paris, when the found the gruesome discovery.
Palaiseau, is located 17 kilometres south of Paris and this is a photo of the town's community hall. Photo: Wikipedia
The woman was found "hunched in a dug-out area, her head against the ground, covered in branches and surrounded by wood stumps", said the source.
She was dressed, but was not wearing shoes and had a "ring with a large stone" on her finger. No documents which could allow her to be identified were found.
The body's state of decomposition was to advanced to determine the cause of death.Photo: AFP
"Her body was found at the bottom of the property which opens out into a woods," a police source said, adding that foul play was suspected.
The body's advanced state of decomposition meant it was not possible to determine cause of death, and an autopsy will be carried out, said the source.
The Airbnb renters were being questioned by police the next day and there is no immediate information available on who owned the property.
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