BERLIN (AP) - Austrian police say they have found a decomposing body wrapped in plastic bags in a freezer in the basement of an apartment building in Vienna. A man was detained, but the cause of death wasn’t immediately clear.
Police were alerted to a foul smell in the building in Vienna’s Floridsdorf district on Thursday and found the plastic bags in a switched-off freezer. On Friday, they said an autopsy found no obvious indications of “third-party responsibility” for the man’s death.
A 45-year-old man was detained and told police in questioning that the body was that of a friend whom he had found dead. He told officers that he had packed the corpse in plastic bags and put it in the basement.
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Police say further tests, including a toxicological examination, are planned.
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