Police were informed at around 1115hrs that a human body had been spotted in the Marsalforn, Għawdex area.
The Malta Police Force requested the aid of the Armed Forces of Malta upon receiving this information and convened on site. Together, they recovered the corpse and transported it Xatt ta’ l-Imġarr.
Preliminary investigations showed that the corpse was a woman, but the person has not yet been identified due to the heavy decomposition which had already taken place.
An inquiry has been opened and investigations are ongoing to discover what led to the passing of the person and how they came to be found out at sea.
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