A body has been found in a stormwater drain in central Queensland.
Detective Acting Inspector Luke Peachey said local businesses had on Thursday morning noticed a foul smell coming from the drain on Gladstone Benaraby Road in Toolooa, just south of Gladstone.
They called the local council but engineers couldn't flush out the pipe and a fibre optic camera located the human body.
Det Insp Peachey said it was still too early to tell if the remains are male or female, or the cause of death.
He said it had most likely been there for at least a week and it could have washed down from other waterways.
"At the moment we're just trying to establish that," he said. "We've got council engineers here at the moment and hopefully they'll give us a clearer idea of where this person may have come from."
Council engineers and police are still working to extract the body from the drain, and may have to cut the road up.
Det Insp Peachey said a decision should be made on Thursday afternoon.
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