Overview
- Emergency services responded to a welfare concern at the Asda petrol station on Rooley Lane and found a man in his 40s dead, with the call coming in at about 6.20am on Monday, August 17.
- West Yorkshire Police have said the death is being treated as unexplained and that enquiries are ongoing at the scene.
- Multiple police vehicles and Yorkshire Ambulance Service crews attended, a police cordon and a forensic tent were set up, and the petrol station has been closed to customers.
- The force has released no further details about how the man died and has not named him while officers and forensic specialists continue their work at the site.
- Local councillors and the paper’s reporting urged anyone with information to contact West Yorkshire Police as investigators carry out enquiries and preserve the scene.