FARGO — Police are investigating after a body was discovered east of Prairie St. John's Hospital in Fargo Thursday night, Oct. 17.
Dispatchers first received a call about a body found between a fence and Dike East around 6:30 p.m., a few blocks south of the downtown area near the Minnesota border. When emergency responders arrived, they found a man's body in a low spot that had filled with water, according to police.
Firefighters and police had to use generator-powered pumps to remove water in order to access the body and retrieve it.
Just before 10 p.m. authorities could be seen loading the body into a coroner's van.
