Police officers were on the scene near Salford, Greater Manchester where a major investigation is taking place after a forensic team found a human torso in Kersal Dale.
The remains were found in a secluded part of Kersal Dale last Thursday eveningPolice have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the gruesome discovery of a man’s headless torso wrapped in plastic in a nature reserve.
Officers are now searching for other body parts, while a postmortem will be carried out to try and identify the victim. Greater Manchester Police has urged the public to come forward with 'any information' about the gruesome find. 'We do know, though, that these remains are human, and they would not be possible for them to have survived.'From forensic inquiry so far, we believe that these remains are likely to have been here for a matter of days. It really is a tragic case.
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