A naked woman was found dead in a trash compactor in Harlem Friday morning, cops said.

Emergency responders found Gloria Morel, 33, in the second-floor trash room at 107 E. 126th St. just after 9 a.m., according to police.

EMS pronounced her dead at the scene.


  The woman was found in East Harlem Friday morning.
 The woman was found in East Harlem Friday morning.

Morel, of the Bronx, was wearing no clothes when she was discovered, cops said.

No signs of trauma were discovered on the woman, and the city’s Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of death, according to police.

Cheryl Lago, 61, who lives near the compactor room on the second floor, told The Post she saw the woman’s body.

“Somebody came and knocked on my door. He said, ‘Cheryl there is a lady laying on the floor there [compactor room],’” she recalled. “I went to the compact room, and I pushed the door open and I said, ‘Oh my God,’ she’s butt naked. She’s dead. She’s gray.”

Additional reporting by Amanda Woods

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