The body of a woman stuffed in a suitcase was found in Kurla in central Mumbai, the police said on Sunday. The discovery was made after the police were informed around 12.30 pm about a suitcase lying abandoned on the CST Road at Shanti Nagar, where work for a Metro project is underway, an official said.

The police reached the spot and found a woman's body inside the suitcase, the official said. The body was sent to a civic hospital for autopsy, he said, adding that the woman's identity is yet to be established.