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Body found stuffed in a laundry bag and discarded on Tacony street
The victim's age, name and gender were not immediately revealed Friday.
![Philadelphia Police officers were dispatched to Tacony early Friday, after a passerby found a laundry bag that contained a body discarded on Edmund Street near Longshore Avenue.](https://www.inquirer.com/resizer/P_0PIMZDNWCtAGDNYcO-o9eOHtg=/0x0:3349x2234/760x507/filters:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/pmn/XLQYQHHOUJCLPM76SMJW6TUW24.jpg)
An unidentified body was found discarded in a laundry bag along a street in Tacony, Philadelphia police said Friday.
Investigators did not reveal the age or gender of the corpse, saying only that the body was “brown-complected" with a small frame. Passersby reported the bag, sitting on a curb on Edmund Street near Longshore Avenue, about 7:30 a.m., police said. Medics pronounced the person inside dead about an hour later.
Police did not release any further information.