The bodies of two men have been found in a unit on the Sunshine Coast after unanswered notes pushed under the door prompted a welfare check.
Queensland Police and paramedics were called to the complex on Kingsford Smith Parade in Maroochydore for a welfare check about 11.20am on Friday.
On entering the unit, they found the two bodies.
A crime scene was declared and investigation launched, with officers confirming there is no ongoing threat to the public.
Neighbours who only knew the two men by their first names told the Courier Mail they were ‘reclusive’ and rarely seen.
One claimed notes passed under their unit door received no response, which led to the police being called.
A man who knew both men, Jacob Arthur Amos, said he was ‘good mates’ with the ‘old school surfer’ who lived in the unit complex for a number of years.
Mr Amos described him as a ‘kind’ person who ‘wouldn’t hurt you’. The other man was a former Sydney resident who was a regular visitor, he said.
He told the publication both men were drug users and that he had knocked on the door on Saturday to check on them.
‘He wasn’t answering his door and now we know why,’ he said.
Neighbours have claimed there was drug use and social issues in the unit tower, with the pair living in the ‘rowdier’ side of the complex.
The tragedy comes within days of the news that the decomposed bodies of two elderly men had been found inside a rundown terrace in inner-city Sydney.
The bodies of the men, who were aged in their 70s and 80s, were found in different levels of the home in Surry Hills on Thursday.
The home was so decrepit that some shocked locals thought it was abandoned. Police say a woman was living with the bodies of two men for almost a month.
Eleanor Barker, 63, has since spoken with detectives. Police say she isn’t suspected of any wrongdoing.
No arrests or charges have been laid.
The only obvious signs of the tragedy on Friday were police tape cordoning off the property and dozens of officers examining the home.
Described as a hoarder’s house, the home was infested with rats and birds. From the street, it appeared rundown, with piles of discarded items strewn across the front.
‘I mean I’ve always seen this house, I didn’t know if people lived in it, but it doesn’t really look like people do,’ neighbour Aisha Mingai said.
Police and forensic officers combed the property on Friday, where detectives seized electrical cables.
Officers also door-knocked neighbours to gather more information.
Police are now working to determine why the deaths went unreported for so long.