Shocked tradesmen have unearthed a body after arriving to work at a construction site south of Sydney.
Work was halted after the grisly find at the site in the Wollongong suburb of Unanderra on Thursday morning.
A worker from a neighbouring business recalled hearing cries of ‘stop’ coming from the Nolan Street site, which is under the supervision of Chappell Building Systems.
‘They started up an excavator, then I could hear someone yelling out ‘stop, stop’,’ Bob told the Illawarra Mercury.
‘I didn’t think anything of it, but then about half an hour later all these cop cars turned up – crime investigation unit, forensics – everybody else turned up. There were about 20 police.
‘They all went down to the side of the creek, where they were digging.’
Bob claimed that masked gloved officers got down on their hand and knees and dug out what appeared to be the body.
Ambulance crews also attended but were unable to revive the man.
Police attended a Wollongong construction site where man’s body was found on Tuesday morning
Police unearthed the body near a creek onsite, according to workers from neighbouring businesses
N SW Police confirmed a man’s body was found onsite in what appeared to be non-suspicious circumstances.
‘On arrival, police located the body of a man yet to be formally identified,’ a police spokesperson said.
‘Officers attached to Lake Illawarra Police District have established a crime scene.
‘Initial inquiries suggest the death is not suspicious.’
The grisly discovery was found by tradies at the site on Thursday morning
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
The site foreman declined to comment.
The site, which was once home to a Bonds textiles factory, sold for $11.275m in November 2022 to Hornby Property Investments Pty Ltd.
The former warehouse onsite hosted a workforce of more than 200 until 2010 when Pacific Brands closed the facility.
