The body of a 63-year-old woman was discovered at a motel room in Busan on Tuesday.
Her body was undiscovered for about two weeks in the motel room, where she had been staying since March.
According to Busan Nambu Police Station, the woman’s body was discovered by a guest staying next door. The guest said a smell had been coming from the dead woman’s room for days, apparently due to the decomposing body.
An autopsy on the body, which was badly decomposed, showed that she might have died around Sept. 29. Police are investigating the exact cause of the woman’s death based on her family’s testimony that she had chronic tuberculosis.
In light of the recent rise in cases of the elderly dying alone, the Busan Metropolitan Government has come up with measures to address the issue, but the number of such deaths is still on the rise.
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(Yonhap) |
