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Police investigating after woman’s body found in bushland near Sydney

NSW Police are investigating after a body was found in bushland in Sydney’s west yesterday. Officers were called to the suburb of Werrington, about 50km from the CBD, at around 1.15pm after a passer-by discovered the woman’s body, AAP reports. Det Supt Trent King told reporters:

It appears as though that body has been there for a period of time without discovery …

Until we identify the cause of death, the death is unexplained and certainly in this circumstance we feel it necessary to take it to the highest level until we can disprove that situation