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Body found in stock dip near Murwillumbah, NSW, believed to be female as police treat death as suspicious

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Katharina Loesche
Body found in stock dip near Murwillumbah, NSW, believed to be female as police treat death as suspicious
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Police in New South Wales are investigating a suspicious death after trail bike riders discovered a partially submerged body in a disused stock dip near Murwillumbah. Authorities are currently working to identify the remains and determine the cause of death.

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The discovery of a body in a remote area triggers a significant criminal investigation and raises public safety concerns in the local community.

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A body found partially submerged in a disused stock dip on remote Crown land is believed to be female, with police now treating the death as suspicious. Two trail bike riders made the grim discovery at a property on Kyogle Rd at Terragon, NSW, about 11.20am on Monday. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Suspicious death investigation after body found in cattle dip The riders were travelling along a track and stopped to look inside the disused livestock treatment tank about 300m from the roadway down an overgrown track. They contacted emergency services and police and paramedics attended, confirming it was a body. Terragon is about 20km south of Murwillumbah and roughly an hour southwest of the Gold Coast. A crime scene was established overnight, with detectives and specialist forensic police examining the scene and body on Tuesday morning.

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