Residents and firemen look at the body of a man found in a gully which runs through the property on which the Ministry of Education and Youth's buildings are located at Heroes Circle, Kingston, yesterday. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

AN employee of the Ministry of Education and Youth yesterday stumbled upon a man's body in a gully running through the ministry's National Heroes' Circle offices.

The employee, who was in the ministry's yard, was alerted to the body, which bore a foul stench, just after 2:00 p.m. Police were summoned and the body later removed to the morgue.

However, prior to the removal of the body, which had multiple gunshot wounds, scores of curious onlookers gathered to get a peak at the body resulting in traffic being brought to a crawl in the south-eastern area of the National Heroes Circle.

Of unsound mind

Onlookers speculated that the man was of unsound mind but retracted this view when police recovered a pouch from beside the body believed to be the property of the man. The pouch contained, among other documents, a Taxpayer Registration Number.

Up to last night, a positive identification of the victim had not been ascertained.

The Gleaner,however, has learnt that gunshots were heard in the Kingston Gardens area on Saturday night.