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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gino Spocchia

Department store takes four days to find worker’s body in bathroom: ‘You wonder why customers didn’t see it’

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An investigation is underway in South Carolina after the body of a 63-year-old department store employee was discovered four days after she went missing in a bathroom, officials have said.

Bessie Durham, who worked as a janitor at the Belk department store in Columbia, died after entering a bathroom at the store inside the city’s Columbiana Center on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.

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