Montreal police are investigating the city's 39th homicide of 2007 after a woman's body was discovered Tuesday morning.
Police spokeswoman Lynne Labelle says officers searching for a missing man in an apartment in the Saint-Laurent borough stumbled upon the corpse, which was under a blanket.
Police are looking for the flat's occupant, who was last seen Monday morning, but investigators won't say if he is a suspect in the killing.
Labelle says there was evidence of violence on the body, especially the throat.
She says the woman was about 30 years old.
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