Mangaluru, Jan 6, 2016 : In a suspected case of murder, the decomposed body of an unidentified peson was found floating in the sea at Kotepura on January 5,Tuesday.
As the semi-naked body bore injury marks all over and the hands and legs were tied down, police have suspected this to be a case of murder. The age of the deceased is estimated to be around 40 -45. The suspicion is that he might have been killed elsewhere and the body dumped in the river.
A post-mortem will be done at a hospital at Derlakatte to ascertain the cause of the death.
Further investigations are in progress.