Police are working to identify human remains found near the Whitireia Park walkway in Titahi Bay yesterday.
Officers were called to the scene just before 11am on Thursday after a person found "what they believed to be human remains" near the Whitireia Park walkway.
In a statement this morning, Detective Senior Sergeant Hamish Blackburn said the remains were extricated from the scene last night and a forensic postmortem would take place "in the coming days".
"Our priority is to identify the deceased and determine how they came to rest where they were located however, it may take some time before we are in a position to confirm who the deceased is," Blackburn said.
Local iwi have been consulted to conduct a blessing of the scene in the coming days.
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