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Second year university students shocked after discovering a two-day-old corpse in the bedroom of a rental property in Brighton. Reuters

Second-year university students were shocked to find a two-day-old dead body upon viewing a rental property in Brighton.

The horrified students rang up emergency services after stumbling on the body of a 23-year-old man believed to be a student in the city.

Sussex Police confirmed they were called to the Vere road in Brighton on the afternoon of 6 March.

I bumped into a friend who was close to the scene. He was part of a group viewing the student house for next year and while being shown around walked into a room with a dead body. He said he could smell something strong and strange from the room.
- Anonymous student

One of the students whose friend was amongst the group viewing the property told the student newspaper, The Tab: "I was walking home at 2pm and the road was cordoned off by loads of police vehicles.

"I bumped into a friend who was close to the scene. He was part of a group viewing the student house for next year and while being shown around walked into a room with a dead body.

"He said he could smell something strong and strange from the room.

"He told me a girl from the house they were viewing said they had not seen the guy for two days."

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Sussex Police said, reported Express: "Police were called to a property in Vere Road, Brighton, shortly after 1pm on Friday 6 March where the body of a 23-year-old man was found.

"There were no suspicious circumstances but the death is being treated as unexplained while enquiries continue."

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