Corpse of woman found in garden of Paris Airbnb home

By Sheena McKenzie, CNN

Updated 1553 GMT (2353 HKT) February 29, 2016

Friends who rented an Airbnb home in France found a woman's body.
Friends who rented an Airbnb home in France found a woman's body.

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  • Woman's corpse found in garden of French Airbnb home
  • Friends had been renting house for weekend party

(CNN)Friends who rented an Airbnb home near Paris made a gruesome discovery Saturday, finding the corpse of a woman in the garden.

The friends had been renting the house, in the town of Palaiseau, just south of Paris, for a weekend party when they found the body.
    The corpse of a woman aged between 30 and 50 was fully dressed and barefoot, police told CNN.
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      The friends who rented the house were questioned by police Sunday.
      A postmortem is being done on the badly decomposed body.
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        The cause of death remains unknown, but police are treating it as a criminal matter.
          Airbnb is an online home-renting site, which since launching in 2008 has grown to over 2 million listings in 190 countries.