A man\u2019s body was found inside a plastic barrel at a beach in Malibu, California, after a lifeguard spotted the unusual item floating offshore, officials announced.<\/p>\n
The body was inside a 55-liter black drum, which was discovered at Malibu Lagoon State Beach, Lieutenant Hugo Reynaga with the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Homicide investigators are examining the circumstances surround the death of the man, who was identified as a Black adult, the sheriff\u2019s department said in\u00a0a release.<\/p>\n
Around 10 a.m. Monday, the lifeguard swam out to get the barrel from the lagoon and opened it on shore, finding a \u201cnon-responsive\u201d person inside, the lieutenant said. Paramedics and deputies were called to the scene and the man was pronounced dead on the beach, authorities said.<\/p>\n
It is unclear how long the container had been floating in the lagoon before it was first retrieved, but the sheriff\u2019s department has received several calls from people reporting that they saw it in the lagoon over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Source: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man\u2019s body was found inside a plastic barrel at a beach in Malibu, California, after a lifeguard spotted the unusual item floating offshore, officials announced. The body was inside a 55-liter black drum, which was discovered at Malibu Lagoon State Beach, Lieutenant Hugo Reynaga with the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department said on Monday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":135097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"\n