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Body found in suitcase in Kensington

Police called death “suspicious,” and an investigation is ongoing.

Police investigate the scene outside the Allegheny El station on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, Pa. on June 11, 2020. A woman’s remains were found in a suitcase which is pictured covered with a white sheet. Police called the death “suspicious.”
Police investigate the scene outside the Allegheny El station on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, Pa. on June 11, 2020. A woman’s remains were found in a suitcase which is pictured covered with a white sheet. Police called the death “suspicious.”Read moreDAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer
    by Oona Goodin-Smith
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The remains of an unidentified woman were found Thursday morning inside a suitcase dumped on a Kensington street, police said.

Officials said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene, near Kensington and Allegheny Avenues, shortly before 10 a.m. Officials said she appeared to be white, but could specify little else. They did not have an approximate age or an immediate cause of death. Police called the death suspicious.

On Thursday morning, as police surveyed the scene, the large black suitcase sat on the sidewalk near the exit of the Allegheny SEPTA station on the Market-Frankford Line.

Staff photographer David Maialetti contributed to this article.