Police are treating the death of a man found in the Shropshire Union Canal in Chester yesterday as ‘unexplained’ but not suspicious.
Officers were called to the canal at the back of terraced houses, not far from The Bridge Inn, Boughton, at 3.30pm on Bank Holiday Monday after a member of the public made the grim discovery.
The body of a man in his 20s, who is from North Wales, was pulled out of the water by specialist officers from the Underwater Search Unit.
Formal identification has not yet taken place.
Cheshire Constabulary spokeswoman Shelley Morris said: “At 3.30pm on Monday 26 August Cheshire Police attended a report of a body seen floating in the Shropshire Union Canal near Vicars Cross, Chester.”
“The body of a deceased male aged in his early twenties was recovered from the water.”
A crowd gathered at the spot where police later taped off the canal towpath.
