The scene is being preserved for forensic and technical examination.
Gardaí are making door to door enquiries in Laois, after a woman died following a suspected assault.
The woman, in her 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene after initially being discovered with serious injuries at around 4:45pm yesterday afternoon in an apartment in Mountmellick.
The scene is being preserved for forensic and technical examination.
Security and crime editor with the Irish Times, Conor Lally, says a man is still being questioned in relation to the woman's death:
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