Mummified body of Italian woman found sitting at a table, 2 years after her death

Italian police have discovered the mummified remains of a 70-year-old woman sitting at a table more than two years after she died, prompting calls for better elder care in the country. Marinella Beretta, who had no living relatives, was found in her house in Prestino, near Lake Como in northern Italy.

Police stumbled upon her remains when they made a  house call during high winds in Lombardy, which risked uprooting neglected trees in her garden.

She had not been seen by neighbors for at least two and a half years, according to Italian media reports.