Body found in Stoke-on-Trent canal today - UPDATE

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Monday, March 18, 2013
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POLICE are not treating the death of a man whose body was pulled out of a canal as suspicious.

Emergency services recovered the man's body from the Etruria stretch of the Trent and Mersey Canal at 9.50am today.

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    Police today pulled a body from the Trent and Mersey Canal near Etruria.

The alarm was raised by a passer-by around Bedford Locks.

A police spokesman said: "The man has yet to be formally identified and next-of-kin have yet to be informed.

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"The death is being treated as unexplained at this time.

"Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the matter.

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