PUNALUR: The dead bodies of an unidentified man and woman were found decomposed under mysterious circumstances in a hut adjacent to Kallada River near Vettipuzha bridge. On Friday morning, the drivers of the nearby autorickshaw stand who noticed the foul smell reported to the Punalur police. Then the police team led by Punalur DySP B Vinod and CI T Rajesh Kumar who reached the spot conducted an investigation.

The bodies are four days old. Both of them look approximately 60 years of age. Police suspect the woman to be Indira who roamed Punalur town and the man has not been identified. The dead bodies were shifted to Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital. Police found blood stains and a blood-stained stone at the scene and suspect that it was a murder. The police said that the post-mortem report was received and the cause of death was brain trauma.