POLICE have launched a murder-style inquiry after a body was discovered above a restaurant.
The body - which has not been identified - was discovered above a pizza restaurant in Hartlepool.
Police were called to a flat in Hartlepool at about 11.30am today after reports that a man's body had been found in the property, which is above Italiano's Pizzeria on Park Road. Paramedics were called, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
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