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Body discovered in car in parking area

Updated at 4:38 pm on 10 April 2012

Police in Hamilton have yet to formally identify a body of a man found in a car at a city shopping centre on Tuesday morning.

The area was cordoned off to allow for a scene examination but both the car and the body were then taken to the central police station to minimise any further disruption at the shopping centre.

A post mortem will be held Wednesday morning to establish the cause of death.

The body was discovered just before 8am on Tuesday in a silver Toyota.

Radio New Zealand's reporter at the scene said the vehicle was parked in the middle of a nearly empty Clyde Street Shopping Centre car park.

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