Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy the body of a man who was found near the Mara­cas Bay look­out on the North Coast on Tues­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the Mara­cas Bay Po­lice Sta­tion were called to a bushy area, about 200 me­ters from the look­out, when they found the de­com­pos­ing body of a man wear­ing a stained T-shirt and a pair of blue short pants.

The man al­so had a "cane row" hair­style.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the body ap­peared to have gun­shot wounds to the right side of his tor­so.

Po­lice from the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries in­to the dis­cov­ery. - Shane Su­perville