The body of an unemployed 51-year-old man was discovered nearly four months after he died in his apartment in Hongkou district, local media reported Sunday.
Although neighbors had complained about a foul odor in the building, no one discovered the body of Qian Zhonghong until Saturday, when his brothers visited his apartment, neighbors and a member of the residential complex's neighborhood committee told the Global Times.
Police have ruled out the possibility of murder and are continuing to investigate the cause of death, according to a report in the Shanghai Evening Post.
Qian's neighbors first reported a stink in the building at the end of August, according to a member of the Jiangwan Town Zhonglie Neighborhood Committee, who asked not to be identified. A neighborhood committee investigation led them to a sixth-floor resident who was using a pungent type of compost to fertilize his plants.
In September, neighbors again complained about a bad smell. This time, committee members searched the building only to find a dead mouse in one resident's kitchen, the committee member said. Complaints about the smell disappeared after the rodent was removed.
The supervisor of the building once knocked on Qian's door, but no one answered.
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