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> 本日、午前11時頃、神奈川県横浜市のアパートで、 **３０前後と見られる** 男性が、血まみれで死亡している **ところが**
> 見つかり、神奈川県警は、殺人事件として捜査しています。

I have no idea what 前後 could mean here. Is this about his age? From what I
found, とみられる could be translated as "x is considered to be" so I guess in this
case it would be that "a man (who is considered to be in his thirties) covered
in blood has been found dead.

Does ところ here means "place"? I'm a bit confused since it's already clear that
the crime scene was in an apartment, so why would they say that they found the
crime scene again? I was also thinking that ところ could imply his state (covered
in blood and dead).
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Need help understanding this sentence: 「30前後とみられる男性が血まみれで死亡しているところが見つかり...」
“[前後]{ぜんご}” in this context means “approximately / around”.

It should be written as “30歳前後“ to make it clear that it refers to the age
although we sometimes eliminate the part “歳(=age)” in informal conversations.

These two Kanjis have following meanings.  
前=former, before, ... / 後= later, after, ...

Visually, it indicates something like this.  
1, 2, 3, .... 30歳前(before thirties), 30, 30歳後(after thirtieth), ..., 41, 42,
....

“30歳前後と見られる男性” means “A man who is estimated to be around 30 years old”.

“~と見られる” can be translated as “estimated as~”. It indicates probabilities, and
is used when you don’t have a clear evidence for your guess.

For example,  
サルと見られる動物 = An animal which is probably a monkey.  
(You don’t have any evidence, but you are just guessing that it’s a monkey).

As for “ところで“, it implies his state/condition in this context. “ところで” can be
used to indicate states, conditions, circumstances, or situations in addition
to its meaning as “place”.

For example,

>   1. 犬が走っているところを見た。= I saw (the situation that) the dog was running.
>   2. 彼が[苦]{くる}しんでるところを見た。= I saw the condition in which he was suffering.
>

The sentence as a whole is translated as...

> Today, at around 11 am, at an apartment in Yokohama city, a man was found in
> the condition of being covered with blood and dead. Yokohama city police
> department has looked into the incident as a murder.

Hope it helps!
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