According to police spokeswoman Julia Schick, the workers made the gruesome discovery on Tuesday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. in an apartment building. During preparatory excavations for concreting in an open basement compartment, the men found the large black bag from which a pungent smell was emanating and alerted the police.
The officers found a badly decomposed body. The body apparently had not been dismembered. Due to the degree of decomposition, the dead person must have been there for a long time. The gender and identity of the deceased was initially unclear, said Schick.
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The body was seized and taken to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy. The investigations by the State Criminal Police Office officially went in all directions, but foul play was suspected.
