The mummified body of a woman who was thought to have died 14 years ago was found in a flat Costa del Sol.
The grim discovery was made by a squatters who forced the lock on the building to gain access to his 11-year-old daughter.
The couple fled the apartment in Malaga on Monday afternoon when they met the body after warning neighbors.
Police sources said that skeletonization, which is the final phase of decomposition when the soft tissues of a corpse are decayed or dried to the point that the skeleton is exposed.
First tests by forensic experts dated the time of death to about 14 years ago.
Researchers say they suspect that the dead woman is a Spanish lady who would have been about 85 years old when she died shortly after losing her husband, although she should not be fully identified yet.
They are now trying to trace family members so that they can positively identify her and determine how she could have died.
The apartment block where her body was found has a high rotation of residents.
The mummified body of a woman who is assumed to have died 14 years ago was found in a flat in Malaga
The body was found by squatters on Monday afternoon. Displayed: General Image of Malaga City, Spain
Police sources say that the fact that the windows of the flat in which the body was found would have been open to reducing the multi -paid scent of a decaying corpse.
In April 2023, the mummified corpse of a man was discovered in addition to his daughter in their flat in Linda-A-Velha near Lisbon after firefighters and the police were called to investigate a bad scent that came from.
Reports when the dead woman, only mentioned as Anabela, is supposed to have died about a week earlier after he had lived with the body of her retired father for 15 years.
In May 2021, the police discovered the resolutive body of a woman in the Noord -Madrid of Fuencaral that was said to have been partially eaten by her pets.
Five of the seven animals were also found dead when officers entered the building.
The dead woman was then mentioned as Clara Ines Tobon.
Buren told the local press that they believed that the Colombian might have died of Covid.
In September 2019 it appeared that a dog survived the death of his owner of cancer by eating a part of his body while he was in his flat in Madrid for about a month.
Allegedly the dead man had no meat on his legs where the animal devoured his lower limbs to stay alive.
A neighbor raised the alarm after returning from vacation to discover a rancid scent that she first saw for a dead rat.
The dog was stunned before he was taken to a rescue center for animals after the police had received firefighters to make their way to the flat on the ground floor in the Madrid district of Ciudad Lineal and the horrible discovery.
Doctors were said at the time that the dead man, a 56-year-old prison chef who was only known as Matias, had estimated, had died about a month earlier after he collapsed with lymph cancer.
