A 78-year-old woman has been found dead in Piazza Assunta, Zebbug.

The grim discovery was made at 6.40am by a police constable.

The police are trying to establish the cause of death, with one possibility being that she fell and hit her head on the way to Mass.

A Magisterial inquiry is under way.

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