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AKARTA: A guard at a South Jakarta boarding house found a dead woman after investigating a suspicious smell coming from her room.

After seeing flies hanging around room no. 15, Rusmanto became suspicious and knocked on the door several times.

Not receiving any response, he opened the door by force and found the body of Uni, who rented the room, already stiff and swollen.

"We suspect the victim has been dead since Saturday," said Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Chrysnanda Dwi Laksana.

Police have yet to determine the cause of death. "We are still investigating," he said.

The body was sent to Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital for an autopsy.

In Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, a newly-born baby was found dead with the head nearly chopped off the body.

Dery Askara, an eyewitness, discovered the body in a room at a boarding house while she was sweeping. The room's tenant was a woman, known only by her initial as N.S.