Man Found Dead in Sewer Pipe in Uijeongbu: Police Investigate Naked State and Hypothermia

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Three months before the body was found, it was revealed in an examination at the hospital … I also have a chronic illness such as dementia.

Police “Naked State Accepts Hypothermia and ‘Undressing Abnormal'”

(Uijeongbu = Yonhap News) Reporter Shim Min-gyu = The man who was found dead naked in a sewer pipe in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, was found to have gone missing while under investigation in the emergency room.

According to the police on the 5th, Mr. A, a man in his 60s who was found naked on the 16th of last month, was found to be working at a furniture factory in Namyangju.

Mr. A was suffering from chronic diseases such as depression due to difficult circumstances, and he was living in a rented room supported by the factory.

The people around him said, “Mr. A only knows the way to the house and the factory,” and “no matter where he went, he couldn’t even find his way home.” “

On January 27, Mr. A went to a factory in Yeoncheon-gun to work with Mr. B, an officer at the factory where he works.

At this time, Mr. A suddenly collapsed and suffered a seizure, and Mr. B quickly transported Mr. A to the emergency room of a hospital in Uijeongbu City. Mr B returned home after Mr A.

However, while Mr. A was being examined at the hospital after Mr. B left, Mr. A left the hospital alone at around 5pm on the same day without paying the hospital fee.

The police confirmed that this was Mr A’s last movement before his body was found.

A police officer said, “The distance between the hospital and the sewer pipe is about 1km. Given the cold weather at the time, it is possible that Mr A, who had symptoms of depression, wandered around and entered the sewer pipe. “

However, it is reported that after Mr. A left the hospital alone, Mr. B, his family, and the people around him did not tell him that he was missing.

Regarding the fact that Mr.

Before that, at about 2:40 pm on the 16th of last month, a river construction officer found Mr. A’s body in a river sewer pipe in Gajeong-dong, Uijeongbu-si.

The fire authorities​​​​ and the police who were dispatched found the body from 8 meters from the entrance to the sewer pipe.

The National Institute of Forensic Science, which performed an autopsy on Mr. A’s body, gave its verbal opinion to the police, saying, “There are no circumstances to consider it a homicide because the cause of death is unknown. “

A police officer said, “There was CCTV near the sewer pipe, but it was only stored for a month, so we couldn’t find anything unusual. After completing additional investigations with bystanders, we plan to close the case with simple accidental death. .”

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