The search for a miss­ing co­conut ven­dor in Ica­cos Vil­lage, Ce­dros, yes­ter­day led to the dis­cov­ery of a de­cap­i­tat­ed, de­com­pos­ing body of a man.

Up to last evening, po­lice said the man’s iden­ti­ty had not been con­firmed. Hunters Search and Res­cue Team cap­tain Val­lence Ramb­harat said the grue­some dis­cov­ery was made around 2 pm while mem­bers were search­ing for 38-year-old In­dar Ram­per­sad, who had been miss­ing from the vil­lage for sev­en days.

Of­fi­cers of the Ce­dros Po­lice Sta­tion, along with the TTPS Air Sup­port Unit, as­sist­ed in the search.