Human remains have been found by workers behind a pub in the middle of a city centre.
Electrical workers made the grim discovery on on Monday, June 19, on Cathederal Street in Manchester.
Electricity North West staff were repairing a fault behind The Old Wellington pub and outside Manchester Cathedral, when they uncovered the human remains, reports the Manchester Evening News.
Cops were called to the area at around 3.30pm, and officers and crime scene investigators set up a tent, and a small cordon remained in place on Tuesday.
Police stated the find is not being treated as suspicious. The site the workers found the remains is believed to be on the spot of an old church yard and graveyard dating back hundreds of years.
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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."
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