Police are treating the deaths of two men in a Deeside town as “unexplained”.
The bodies of the men, aged 28 and 44, were discovered at a property in Swann Place in Ballater on Friday afternoon.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “A post mortem will take place to establish the exact cause of their death.”
She added that inquiries are ongoing and that a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.