British woman is found dead along with Swedish man in a tourist apartment in Portugal

A British woman has been found dead along with a Swedish man in a tourist apartment in Portugal.

Local reports said the people were aged between 40 and 50 and had both been living in London. Their bodies were found inside a tourist flat in the northern city of Porto.

The pair are said to have arrived at the property a few days ago. The alarm was sounded just after 1pm today.

Officers from Portugal’s PJ police force are investigating. They have not yet made any official comment.

Unconfirmed local reports said investigators believed the deaths could be drug-related and there were no obvious signs of any violence or weapons found. Post-mortems are due to take place over the weekend.

Neither of the two people found dead have been named.

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