KATHMANDU: The body of a 27-year-old woman was found hanging in Lele on the outskirts of Lalitpur .

Police said the body of Karuna Thapa was found dangling from a shawl inside a zinc hut in Lele. The body has been sent to Patan Hospital for post-mortem.

It is yet to be established whether it was suicide or homicide, police said. The body of Achyut Gurung, 55, of Dhading was found in Basantapur, while 33-year-old Govinda Prasad Paijapun of Sirkha VDC in Myagdi was found dead in a room in Bhaktapur.