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Sanitation worker finds dead body inside a garbage truck, South Carolina cops say

A dead body was found at a waste processing facility in South Carolina on Wednesday, media outlets report.

A worker found the body in a garbage truck at the Waste Industries facility in Piedmont at about 1 p.m., according to FOX Carolina.

Officials say the body was brought to the facility in the truck “sometime Wednesday,” Greenville News reported.

The Greenville County Coroner’s Office identified the body as 56-year-old Terry Brent Thomas, WSPA reported, and will perform an autopsy Thursday to “determine the cause and manner of death.”

The coroner used fingerprints to identify the body, Greenville News reported.

There are no “immediate signs of foul play,” according to FOX Carolina, but the coroner’s office and Greenville County Sheriff’s Office are investigating.

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Bailey Aldridge
The News & Observer
Bailey Aldridge is a reporter covering real-time news in North and South Carolina. She has a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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