Nigeria, July 25 -- Passersby on Aba-Owerri Road, Abia State, have found an unidentified body of a man, believed to be in his 50s, that was decomposing in a wheelbarrow. He was supposedly napping in the barrow. The discovery has prompted a police investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.

The body was found at Atuma House, opposite St. Paul's Church at 104 Aba-Owerri Road, Umungasi. By the time of discovery, the remains, according to eyewitnesses, had begun to decompose.

Tochukwu Ogbuagu, who shared photographs of the deceased along with a police letter authorising the evacuation of the corpse, reported the incident on Facebook on Thursday. While social media reports suggested the man may have died while resting after a...