Pets eat body left three years on floor

A partially mumified body lay on the floor for three years and was eaten by household pets in a house occupied by the dead woman's mentally ill sister.

Responding to a neighbour's concern, police in the US city of Detroit discovered the body of the woman, thought to have died in her 80s, on the kitchen floor in a house shared with her sister.

A cat and a dog had apparently eaten part of the body, which was partially covered with newspapers and had apparently been left lying by the sister for three years, police said.

The sister, also in her 80s and suffering from mental problems, has reportedly been taken to a crisis centre.

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