Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy the body of a man whose body was dumped at a ceme­tery in Mor­vant on Fri­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said Mor­vant po­lice re­ceived a re­port of a body at the Moun­tain View Ceme­tery, on An­ge­lene Street, around 7.15 am.

Of­fi­cers vis­it­ed the scene and were led to some bush­es where they found the body of the man wear­ing a white vest, a pair of blue jeans, one side of black Nike sneak­ers on his right foot and a white plas­tic bag cov­er­ing his head.

The man’s hands were tied be­hind his back and the feet were tied with black and white plas­tic bag.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the body ap­peared to be in the ear­ly stages of de­com­po­si­tion.

Po­lice from the Barataria CID and the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau al­so vis­it­ed the scene with a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer who de­clared the man dead.

Po­lice from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion II are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.