India, Nov. 11 -- A woman, believed to be in her mid-forties, was found murdered with her face smashed by a heavy object in north Delhi's Burari on Tuesday morning.

The investigators suspect the heavy object used to commit the murder was a stone. The police are scanning CCTV footage from the area to identify the people who were last seen with her hours before her body was discovered.

"The body was found in a lane near a pump house in Tomar Colony after a property dealer spotted it and alerted the police. A police team reached the spot and called an ambulance. However, the ambulance staff declared the woman dead, following which forensic and crime teams were called to examine the scene," an officer aware of the matter said.

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