A 49-year-old woman from Kharpan in ward 4 of Siddha Kumakh Rural Municipality was found dead in a food storage basket in her own house on Friday.

According to Police Inspector Gopal Shrestha, information officer of the district police office, the woman has been missing since October 2.

The body has been sent to the district hospital for a post-mortem.

Further investigation regarding the incident is going on, said Shrestha.