Overview

• Contract workers cleaning a malfunctioning percolation pit at MN Credence Flora Apartments uncovered a human skull and bones near the parking area.
• The Residents’ Welfare Association launched the cleanup after civic authorities issued multiple notices over the complex’s nonfunctional stormwater management system.
• Begur police filed the unnatural death report following a complaint by RWA president Skariya John and sent the skeletal remains to a forensic science laboratory.
• Authorities are inspecting all 16 percolation pits across the decade-old, 45-unit complex as they await forensic results expected within a week.
• Some longtime residents suspect the land was once a burial ground, but investigators say they will not draw conclusions until laboratory findings are received.