KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 -- The decomposed bodies of a woman and a child were discovered in a flat unit along Jalan Bukit Gambir in George Town yesterday.

According to The Straits Times, the discovery was made after a neighbour reported a foul smell coming from the unit and alerted the authorities at around 4.41pm.

A team from the Fire and Rescue Department and the police was dispatched to the scene.

"Preliminary checks found two bodies - a woman and a child - inside the unit.

"Their remains were already decomposing," a source was quoted as saying.

The woman and child are believed to have been dead for some time.

According to a woman claiming to be her younger sister, who wished to be known as Nor, the 40-year-old woman had been living ...