Police investigate 'suspicious' death in Melbourne
Police have launched an investigation after a woman's body was found in an apartment in Melbourne on Friday.
Officers visited a Waterside Place address in Docklands at about 1.30pm as part of their enquiries into the death of a woman in the CBD earlier this week.
After entering the apartment, police said they discovered the body of a 51-year-old Docklands woman.
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Police have launched an investigation after a woman's body was found in an apartment in Melbourne on Friday. 9News
"Her death is being treated as suspicious," a police spokesperson said.
"While the exact circumstances of the death of the woman in Docklands are still being established, police believed it is linked to the Melbourne CBD death."
Emergency services were called to the Latrobe Street apartment at about 8.40pm on Tuesday after the 31-year-old Chinese national was found dead.
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A 22-year-old Huntingdale man was arrested in Preston on Thursday after a public appeal and extensive search by police.
He was subsequently charged with murder, robbery and theft, and is currently remanded in custody.
Police said it is also believed the 22-year-old man was known to both women.
"We have a man in custody who was known to both women," Victoria Police detective acting superintendent Dean Thomas said.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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