On Sunday at 11 a.m., the police in South-West informed about the discovery of a dead person in Stavanger. The person was located by Hindalsdammen at Vaulen in Stavanger, around five kilometers from the center of Stavanger. At 16.25 the police report that a man in his 50s was found. The deceased will be autopsied and the case will be investigated further. The police are still working to notify the next of kin. Operations leader Sten Kristian Lund in the police comments on the case as follows to news’s seconded journalist: – There is nothing to indicate that anything criminal has happened, but we are carrying out investigations at the scene, says Lund. The person was found by passers-by. The discovery site is on a slope with scrub outside the hiking trail that runs along Hindalsdammen. Operations leader Sten Kristian Lund in the South-West police district. Photo: Hanne Høyland / news Forensic technicians have been working on the necessary investigations at the site since 12.30. A barrier has been set up to cut off pedestrians from the footpath. The police will not give further comments until the autopsy report is available, writes operations manager John Ask in Sør-Vest in a message. A total of four police cars helped cordon off the area near where passers-by found a dead person on Sunday. Photo: Hanne Høyland A hiker tells news that he walked along the relatively small pond at 10.30, and that at that time he saw neither the police nor anyone else nearby. The hiker says that he did not go past the place where the person was found, around 100 meters below county road 44 at Vaulen.
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Man in his 50s found dead in Stavanger – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio
