The body of a missing female tourist was discovered Sunday in a wooded area in Nazareth.

Passersby noticed the body near a school in the Mount Precipice area in the city. They called police, who cordoned off the area.

The woman, whose body bore signs of violence, is evidently from Poland.

Police said that the woman was reported missing on Thursday by an employee of the hotel where she, her father and other members of a tour group were lodging.

From the time the woman was reported missing, police said, they began investigating, scouring the area and disseminating pictures of the woman.

Nazareth police officers, forensic investigators and homicide detectives are continuing to work at the crime scene.

In an unrelated incident, another body was found Sunday in Mount Arbel, in the Lower Galilee region. Police are investigating.