Kupwara, Mar 31: Body of a mentally unsound person was found in Kupwara district of north Kashmir on Thursday.

Reports reaching news agency said that some passersby spotted the body near Jamia Masjid Drugmulla and informed the police station about it. A police team reached the spot and took the body into possession.

The deceased has been identified as Fayaz Ahmad Bhat son of Ghulam Rasool Bhat, a resident of Hatmulla Kupwara.

Meanwhile a police official told that man was mentally unsound and the body is being handed over after medico legal formalities to his family for last rites.

(GNS)