BREAKING NEWS: Dead body found in Northcliff

A man’s body, believed to be a trolley man, was found at the Claire Crescent and Ethel Avenue intersection in Northcliff.

Beagle Watch response officer Thabang Tucks said he saw the man coughing during his (Tucks’) his patrol around 9am this morning, although he did not think much of it.

Tucks said when he returned to the spot about an hour later, the man was dead.

The body, according to the police who are currently on scene, does not have any visible wounds that might suggest foul play

This comes just four days after a 21-year-old woman fell to her death at the Northcliff Ridge and two weeks after another trolley man’s body was found hanging from a tree in Newlands.

More details to follow.