Human remains have been found in the heart of Manchester city centre. The grim discovery was made by electrical workers on Monday (June 19).
Electricity North West staff fixing a fault on Cathedral Street, behind The Old Wellington pub and outside Manchester Cathedral, discovered the remains.
Police were called to the area at around 3.30pm. Officers and crime scene investigators were seen as a tent was set up. A small cordon remained in place on Tuesday.
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The find is not being treated as suspicious. The site is believed to be on the spot of an old church yard and graveyard dating back hundreds of years.
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said: "At around 3:30pm on Monday 19 June 2023, police were called to Cathedral Street in Manchester to reports that human remains had been found. During work on an electrical fault, a workman uncovered what are believed to be human remains next to the Cathedral.
"Work was temporarily stopped whilst Crime Scene Investigators from GMP attended. The find is not being treated as suspicious."
A spokesperson for Electricity North West said: "Yesterday when repairing a fault on an underground electricity cable on Cathedral Street, an engineer discovered what appeared to be human remains. We notified the police immediately and paused our work to allow them to investigate."
