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Bank sells house complete with owner's corpse

Tue May 15, 9:24 AM ET

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish bank repossessed a house and put it up for auction

complete with the mummified body of the former owner who had missed her

mortgage payments, newspaper El Pais reported on Wednesday.

The corpse, preserved by salty air in the seaside town of Roses after an

apparent death by natural causes, was discovered by Jorge Giro, who entered the

house for the first time on Saturday after buying it at the auction, El Pais

said.

The dead woman, described by neighbors as having been in poor health and often

absent visiting relatives in Madrid, had stopped paying her mortgage six years

ago.

The unnamed bank which eventually repossessed the home never bothered to look

inside before selling it.