Kuala Krai fire and rescue station operations commander Khairul Duha Abdul Halim said the body of Halimatun Yusoff, 69, who lived alone, was found at 2.08pm in the living room after firefighters forced open a locked door.

“We received a distress call at 2.04pm from police seeking assistance to open the door to the unit following a complaint of a foul smell.

“After the door was opened, our team found the decomposing body of an elderly woman who had died in the living room,” Bernama reported him as saying today.