A 31-year-old Bulgarian woman was murdered brutally in northern Greece, the local media announced Monday.

The corpse of Penka Yankova from the northern Bulgarian town of Troyan was discovered in the region of Olintos on the Halkidiki Peninsula by hunting dogs.

The bruises and marks on the body showed the woman was first raped, and then killed by a number of blows on the back of the head, the face, and the chest.

Representatives of Bulgaria`s Consulate-General in Thesaloniki announced the women worked at a local hotel.