Homi­cide of­fi­cers, along with per­son­nel from the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU), were called to Tyri­co Beach at Mara­cas Bay yes­ter­day morn­ing, af­ter a body was dis­cov­ered in some bush­es.

The grue­some find oc­curred short­ly af­ter 8 am, when a fe­male beach­go­er had gone to the bush­es near the ac­cess road to re­lieve her­self. She re­port­ed­ly ran out scream­ing af­ter see­ing the corpse of an East In­di­an man ly­ing face down.

Po­lice ar­rived to find the uniden­ti­fied vic­tim bound and gagged. De­spite the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion, beach vis­i­tors con­tin­ued to ar­rive, set­ting up tents and chairs seem­ing­ly un­aware of the scene un­fold­ing near­by.