AN INFLUENCER and her daughter have been mysteriously found dead in their apartment after neighbours reported a horror smell.
Cops launched a probe into the deaths of Lidiane Aline Lorenco, 33, and 15-year-old Miana Sophya Santos after they were discovered last Friday.
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Lidiane, who boasted over 54,000 followers on Instagram, had been living in an eleventh-floor flat in Rio de Janeiro alongside young Miana.
After not being seen or heard from for some time, concerned neighbours began to report a grim odour coming from Lidiane’s apartment.
The Fire Department arrived to the block of apartments and after receiving no answer from inside broke down the door.
Inside they found Lidiane in a bedroom and Miana in the living room.
Both had been dead for some time, police believe.
The Rio de Janeiro Civil Police said in a statement they are yet to uncover what led to the pair’s tragic demise.
They say investigations are ongoing.
Lidiane was an influencer, model and had been studying medicine in the years before her death.
She had moved to Rio de Janeiro from from Santa Cecília a few years ago on her own.
Miana had been studying at the Irma Irene Basic Education School in Santa Cecília at the time and had only moved into the Rio apartment recently.
Their bodies were taken from Rio to the West over the weekend for a burial which took place on Sunday in Santa Cecília.
It comes as a little girl was left orphaned after her parents died in a boiling motel bathtub following a night of partying.
Military police officer Jeferson Luiz Sagaz, 37, and his partner Ana Carolina Silva, 41 — a nail salon owner — were found dead in the bathroom in Brazil.
Investigators say the couple passed out in a bathtub filled with 50°C water while a space heater blasted heat into the room.
Brazil is also still reeling from allegations that a law student killed four people in a five-month long killing spree.
Ana Paula Veloso Fernandes, 36, has been accused of killing a 65-year-old man with a poisoned stew as well as three others in similar circumstances.
Police chief Halisson Ideiao said Fernandes would use different strategies to get closer to her victims.
In all four cases, she was the last person to have contact with them and the first to call police.
He claimed: “Ana Paula takes pleasure in killing. Her motivation doesn’t really matter – she wants to kill.”
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