Police have arrested two women at a british airport after they reportedly tried to smuggle a corpse onto a flight.

Police said the women were detained at Liverpool's John Lennon airport "on suspicion of failing to give notification of death" of a 91-year-old man.

The BBC and other British media reported that the women placed the man, a relative of theirs, into a wheelchair and covered his face with sunglasses in a bid to get him aboard a flight to Berlin.

The two women, daughter and wife, aged 44 and 66 respectively, were detained and have been released on bail. They have not been charged and police say inquiries are continuing.

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