The police yesterday discovered a man's corpse in an apartment at Qawra.
They had been alerted in the afternoon to a strong smell coming out of the apartment in Barnaba Street.
The police established that the body was that of a 32-year-old Maltese man who had been dead for a number of days. They immediately launched investigations into the man's death.
Magistrate on duty Jacqueline Padovani was informed.