Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a 57-year-old man, whose de­com­pos­ing body was found float­ing in a riv­er near his home, yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said short­ly af­ter 9 am, they re­ceived a re­port from a vil­lager that a man's body was float­ing face down in a riv­er off Old Bay Road, Mara­cas Bay. The of­fi­cers ar­rived on the scene soon af­ter and fished the body out of the wa­ter. The man was lat­er iden­ti­fied as So­man Man­groo. Man­groo, orig­i­nal­ly from St Mary's Vil­lage, South Oropouche, moved in­to a house near to where his body was found, a lit­tle over a year ago.

His body was then tak­en to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James where an au­top­sy will be per­formed lat­er to­day. Po­lice said Man­groo's body was in an ad­vance stage of de­com­po­si­tion and did not ap­pear to have any marks of vi­o­lence."It ap­pears that he had been in the riv­er for a cou­ple of days. All we know about him right now is that he was a heavy drinker," a se­nior po­lice source said.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives be­lieve that Man­groo may have fall­en in­to the riv­er while in­tox­i­cat­ed and drowned, how­ev­er, they said they would wait on the au­top­sy be­fore clas­si­fy­ing his death.In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.