Ilam: A woman's skeletal remains were found on Thursday, three weeks after she was reported missing in Ilam district.

Police identified the body of 36-year-old Devi Maya Fago of Sangrumba in Ilam Municipality-12 by her clothes and slippers.

Fago had left her home on June 21 for election publicity campaign, but did not return home. Her skeleton was found hanging from a tree at a field belonging to Dhan Bahadur Bohara of Dokantole in Ilam Municipality-12 yesterday, according to the Ilam District Police Office.

Her father Lakh Bahadur Fago had filed a case of a missing person at the DPO on June 24. Local villagers collecting fodders had found the skeleton and informed the police, Inspector Ambar Bahadur Niraula said.

Inspector Niraula said the authorities were investigating if the death was a suicide or a murder. The skeleton was sent to the District Police Office, Ilam for DNA test.