Balasore: The decomposed body of an unknown man was spotted floating on the pond of Hidigan village under Chandipur police station limits of Odisha’s Balasore district today.
Some villagers spotted the body of the man, who is assumed to be around 40-year-old, and informed the police.
Cops from the Chandipur police station along with a scientific and firefighters rushed to the spot and fished out the body and started an investigation.
While it is yet to be known under what circumstances the man, who is yet to be identified, died in the pond or someone killed him and dumped the body there, it is assumed that he had died a couple of days ago as foul smell was emitting from the body.
However, all details will be known only after the completion of the probe and postmortem of the body, said sources.