SHARJAH // Police have launched an investigation after the body of a 40-year-old Asian woman was discovered in an apartment in a residential neighbourhood.
The police operations room received a report of a body in a flat in the Abu Shaghara area. Forensic teams and officers from the Criminal Investigation Department sealed off the apartment, took fingerprints from the body and photographs of the scene to help identify the victim and the cause of death, which is yet to be determined.
The general prosecutor ordered the woman's body be taken to the forensic laboratory for examination, reported Al Ittihad, the Arabic language sister paper of The National.
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