Cancun, Q.R. — Local authorities responded to an emergency report after someone found a body left on a public street. The body of an adult was reported found wrapped in a tarp Sunday near a public market.
Police confirmed the report in SM 235 near where vendors were setting up a street market along 95th Street Sunday morning.
Authorities were notified of the discovery just before 10:00 a.m. through a 9-1-1 call by neighbors who reported a suspicious package abandoned on the public road with a human shape.
Municipal Police confirmed the package was a deceased body.
Authorities have not said if the victim was a man or woman.
