Mummified body found on German adventurer's yacht drifting in the Pacific Ocean

Police in the Philippines said they were trying to confirm the identity and cause of death of a man whose mummified body was found sitting slumped in a yacht that was drifting in the Pacific Ocean and which was apparently owned by a German adventurer.

Police chief inspector Dominador Plaza said the grey decomposing remains of the man resembled a mummy.

His body was discovered near the radio in the cabin of a white yacht by fishermen off the south- eastern province of Surigao del Sur.