A murder investigation is under way after the body of a man was found dumped in a canal near Selby, North Yorkshire.
Police said the man died from severe head injuries in what was a "brutal attack" and the body could have been in the water for up to three weeks.
The man's body was discovered by an off-duty police officer who was fishing at Burn Bridge, between the North Yorkshire villages of Brayton and Burn. Police have now cordoned off an area of the canal footpath immediately next to the main A19 bridge.
A post mortem on the body was been carried out lastnight but no details have been released.
Detective Superintendent Karnail Dulku said police were hoping distinctive labels on the man's clothes would help them determine his identity and are appealing to the public for help.
"My appeal today is for anyone that may help us to identify this man and to anyone who may have been in the Burn Canal area in the last two to three weeks," he said.
The man was of Oriental appearance, 5ft 7in tall, about 10st and thought to have been aged between his late teens and early 30s, with black, straight, collar-length hair.
He was wearing a black t-shirt with a Calvin Klein Jeans logo, black underpants and khaki long-johns. He was not wearing any shoes or socks.
Mr Dulku said the pants had a logo featuring the letters PROEA and the long-johns a logo featuring the letters UTEJIAO.
"What we have here is an Oriental male who has been brutally murdered and his body has been dumped in the canal.
"We don't know yet whether it was deposited in the location where we found him or whether he was placed in the water elsewhere," the officer said.
Source:the times
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