Residents shocked after man’s body found in apartment

Residents of a Waterford City apartment block where a man was found dead in suspicious circumstances have expressed their shock at events.

Gardaí are trying to formally identify the man, originally from Africa and believed to have been in his mid-40s, whose body was found in an apartment at Wellington Street close to Ballybricken Green at about 9.15am yesterday.

It is not yet clear if the man was a resident of the apartment where his body was discovered.