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Near east side death investigation underway

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Police are conducting a death investigation on the city’s near east side. 

Officers responded to the 5000 block of East 21st Street around 11 a.m. Saturday on a report of a body found. 

Neighbors told 24-Hour News 8 that a church group working on neighborhood clean-up found the remains. 

The case was being treated as a death investigation — not a homicide — as of Saturday afternoon. 

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