Police have launched an investigation after a man’s body was found outside a guest house in central Melbourne.
The 55-year-old man was found dead outside the Ivy Grange guest house on Malsbury St just after 6.30am on Sunday.
It is understood he was found with facial injuries.
Officers were seen flooding the street as they began their investigation, while forensic officers investigated the death.
“The exact circumstances surrounding the death have yet to be determined and the investigation is ongoing,” police said in a statement.
A 55-year-old man has been found dead outside the Ivy Grange guest house on Malsbury St, Melbourne, with facial injuries
The police have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the man’s death (photo, forensic officers on site)
The Ivy Grange is a 41-room guest house listed as crisis accommodation for people over 25 years of age.
People are often seen hanging outside the guest house, a neighbor told The Herald Sun.
“There’s always something going on,” he said.
‘I always see people sitting outside the door smoking.’
“Everyone in the neighborhood says that when people get out of prison, that’s where they first register their address.”
It is not the first death to rock the boarding house: the body of a 29-year-old is found on a roof after he was stabbed in 2014.
The stabbing occurred after a “violent altercation” broke out between three people in the building, police said at the time.
Victoria police said they believed the injured man tried to escape after the brawl by breaking through a closed window and landing on the roof where he was discovered.