HALIFAX – Police are asking for the public’s help to identify what they say is a badly decomposed male body pulled from the Halifax harbour Wednesday afternoon.
In a news release, police said the deceased was wearing a dark coloured American Eagle winter jacket, Aeropostale blue jeans, a brown belt and Nike sneakers.
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Emergency crews retrieved the body after police responded to a report of an object floating in the water around 2:40 p.m. Wednesday.
The body was taken to the medical examiner’s office where an autopsy was scheduled for Thursday.
The case has been assigned to the Halifax Regional Police VICE unit, which is tasked with investigating missing persons.
Police are asking anybody who thinks they can identify the remains or with information about the case to come forward.
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