Lawrence police and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical are investigating a report of a body found along the railroad tracks Monday in East Lawrence.

Around 4:15 Monday, railroad workers discovered a body close to “a section of track that is not actively used” near the intersection of Eighth and Delaware streets, Lawrence Police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley said.

The original call came over the police scanner as a possible dead person or “cardiac arrest” near 730 Eighth St.

Lawrence police have sent crime scene technicians and coroner scene investigator personnel to the site, McKinley said. He did not know whether any preliminary determination as to the manner of death would be made Monday evening.

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