Police are investigating the death of a 70-year-old man whose body was discovered at an abandoned building on the compound of St Joseph Secondary School on Sunday morning.

The deceased has been identified as Vishnu Maharaj, 70, who was of no fixed place of abode.

At around 11.45 a.m. a man went to the police station in St Joseph and reported receiving information from an unknown individual that his friend had died after reportedly falling at the abandoned multi-purpose building on the school compound.