They made the grim discovery five days after business management student Khusbu Shah, 21, was reported missing by her husband. Police said the body had not been formally identified but locals in Dennistoun, Glasgow, say officers believe it is Khusbu.
Detectives searched the flat the Nepalese national shared with her husband and also sealed off a woodland area close to Alexandra Park.
Shocked neighbors say they saw officers remove the body from the woodland area in a bag and that they also took a blue Mondeo car which was parked outside the block of flats.
One said: "My daughter saw them take a body on a stretcher into the back of a black van. She said it was very small.
"It´s horrible to think someone´s been lying there dead. This is a quiet area." Another said: "There has been a man in a car watching that house for a week.
"We´re talking 24-hour surveillance. We wondered what was going on." Khusbu has lived in the UK for four years with her husband, also from Nepal.
She studied accountancy at the city´s Caledonian University.
Police are waiting for forensics to determine the cause of death.
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