07/04/2005

Police treat body find as ‘suspicious’

Police are treating the discovery of a man’s body in Co Down on Thursday as “suspicious”.

The body was discovered in a yard at the back of an office in Church Square, Banbridge, at about 8.30am.

Police and emergency services were called to the scene but the man, who is believed to be in his 20s, was pronounced dead.

It is not yet known how the man, who is not thought to be from the town, died.

A post mortem will be carried out. There are not further details at present.

(MB/SP)

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