Police in Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem District on Saturday said they have launched a probe into a case in which a dried body of a Vietnamese woman was found in an apartment of a high-end residential building in the district.

The condo building’s management board, in conjunction with local concerned agencies, discovered the corpse on Friday afternoon, according to Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper.

They arrived at the apartment following residents’ report that a person who wanted to rent the apartment had tried to contact its owner, including by knocking at the door, but failed.   

The woman was born in 1995, Phap Luat Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh (Ho Chi Minh City Law) newspaper reported, citing a representative of Nam Tu Liem police.

After knowing about the discovery, relatives of the woman contacted concerned agencies to receive her body.

They said they had known nothing about where the woman lived and what she did for more than the past two years, during which they searched for her but failed, according to Tien Phong (Vanguard) news site. 

The body likely existed in the apartment for about a year, a leader of the administration of the district’s Tay Mo Ward, where the residential building is located, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, citing initial reports. 

“The building has a closed architecture, so it is hard to discover the corpse,” the official added.

Earlier on Friday evening, residents in the area were very shocked to see the images posted in social media showing the dried body of the woman lying on a sofa in the apartment.

Locals said that the apartment had been locked for years and that the woman once lived there for two years but she did not appear later.

Regarding some sources that said that the family of the woman has reported her missing for the past years, the ward authorities said that they have yet received such information, news site Dan Tri reported.

A verification showed that the apartment was rented by a man and a woman in 2022.

According to some conversations between residents of the residential building posted on social media, neighbors heard the sounds of a quarrel from the apartment in around May 2022, according to the news site.

Local police said they will update the media with the latest results of their investigation into the case.

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