An investigation was under way today after a body was found in a suitcase on farmland, police said.

The body, believed to be that of an adult female, was found on land off Buckland Road in Cliffe, near Rochester, Kent, shortly before 1.30pm yesterday.

A spokesman for Kent Police said the suitcase was found in a dried up pond, known locally as the "old pond". Inquiries are being made to establish the identity of the body and the cause of death was not known, she said.

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