The de­com­pos­ing body of a man was found float­ing in the Beetham Riv­er yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The uniden­ti­fied corpse was dis­cov­ered at 4.11 pm by the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team.

It was seen float­ing in the riv­er which runs par­al­lel to the waste­water treat­ment plant at Clear Wa­ter Road, Beetham.

Of­fi­cials in­di­cat­ed that the lev­el of de­com­po­si­tion meant the body may have been in the wa­ter any­where be­tween five to six days.

As a re­sult, of­fi­cers were un­able to say if it bore marks of vi­o­lence or if there were any scars or tat­toos that could as­sist in the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion process.

The TTPS is ask­ing any­one with miss­ing rel­a­tives to vis­it the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, to as­sist in the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion process.

Of­fi­cers are ex­pect­ed to re­turn to the area to­day to con­tin­ue the col­lec­tion of foren­sic ev­i­dence.