Suspected murder victim turns out dead cat

Abu Dhabi police went on alert and sent a large unit and their coroner to a suspected crime scene following a call from an Emirati man saying he has just seen a dead body buried near his house. When it was exhumed, the body turned out to be a dead cat.

The Emirati said he was nipping out of his house in Khalifa City just outside the capital when he saw a woman getting out of her car and carrying a blood-stained wrap.

He told police that the woman hastily dug a pit and buried a wrapped body, adding that when he tried to come close to her, she fled the scene.

“The man phoned the police to say that he suspected a murder had been committed. Police sent a large unit and a coroner to the area, where they exhumed the body, but it turned out to be a dead cat which was apparently killed in a road accident,” the Arabic language daily Al Khaleej said.

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