A decomposing corpse was found stashed in a trash can inside a Bronx apartment over the weekend after a putrid smell led authorities to the gruesome find, police and sources said. 

The unidentified cbody was discovered wrapped in a plush fabric, stuffed in the garbage inside a fifth-floor apartment on East 179th Street near Mapes Avenue in the Crotona neighborhood when police responded around 2 p.m. Saturday, sources said.

A bystander smelled a foul odor when they walked past the apartment and called 911, cops said. 

Officers needed to enter through the fire escape to access the apartment, sources said. 

EMS workers responded and pronounced the person dead at the scene. 

The death is being investigated as suspicious, because of how the body was found, sources said. 

The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will officially determine the person’s cause of death.