– It is unknown how long the person has been there, but it can not be a matter of many days. The site is adjacent to a path that runs along a road. It is not natural for a person to lie dead in such a place without being discovered, says operations manager Erik Gunnerød in the Southeast police district to NTB.
An elderly person has been found, according to local newspapers Varden , but Gunnerød will not go into detail about the dead person or about further circumstances about the discovery. The police’s first priority is to get the person identified and then get in touch with relatives.
Unknown identity
– We do not know who this person is, so it is natural that we start to wind up there, Gunnerød says.
He emphasizes that the police classify all deaths where the person dies alone as suspicious. In this case, it is also the special site – it is not directly connected to residential or cottage fields and is not in a natural hiking area – that means that forensic investigations have been initiated.
Suspicious findings
– There have also been discoveries at the site that make this suspicious. Forensic technicians will work on site throughout the evening and night. I will not go into what or what kind of findings we are talking about, Gunnerød says.
According to the police, the message reached the police at 20.59 on Thursday. It was passers-by who reported the find to the police.
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