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The owner of a recycling centre in Taiwan made a gruesome discovery when he found a decomposing body inside a used refrigerator, according to an official and reports Monday.
Hsu Chiu-feng, from the northern port city of Keelung, told police Sunday he bought the medium-sized fridge from four young men for 150 Taiwan dollars (4.60 US dollars), the Apple Daily newspaper said.
He noticed a dark liquid trickling from the old and rusty fridge, which was also giving out a foul smell, leading him to the grisly find.
A prosecutor who examined the body said it was so decayed that it was impossible to immediately determine its sex.
"All we can say is it was an adult," the prosecutor, Cheng Ya-fang, told reporters Monday.
She added the body was dressed only in underwear, and had been found along with some wine bottles and a few comic books.
Hsu led police to the four young men, who said they had no idea how the body had ended up in the fridge.
One of the four said the refrigerator had been placed in the store room of his father's wholesale food business.
The fridge had previously been used to store seafood so he did not think the foul smell was strange, the young man told investigators.
