oostende · BE
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A woman's body was found at 8.30pm on Thursday 20 August 2026 in a terraced house in the Meiboomwijk, in the centre of Oostende, West Flanders. The prosecution service treated it from the outset as a suspicious death. The date of the killing has not been established. It cannot have been later than 20 August 2026, the evening the body was found, and was probably earlier: the victim could not be identified because the body was already in a state of decomposition. The house is thought to have been hers. A 47-year-old man was picked up on the Friday and an examining magistrate ordered his detention on Saturday 22 August on suspicion of murder, as confirmed by the West Flanders prosecution service. He was due to appear before the court the following week. He held a reference address with the municipal social services. The victim and the suspect are reported to have known each other, but the nature of the connection between them was still under investigation. The prosecution service said it could give no further information in the interest of the inquiry.
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- incident_date corrected from the article publication date 2026-08-23 to 2026-08-20, the evening the body was found; the killing itself is undated because the body was already decomposed, so 2026-08-20 is recorded as the closed end of the window rather than a confirmed date of death, and the prose states the bound explicitly. Placeholder coordinates [0, 0] replaced with the Oostende centroid [51.2247, 2.9153]. victim.sex set to F. judicial_status raised from alleged to charged. slug and filename updated to match.