Hikers in a Laxárdalur valley north of the village of Höfn in South Eastern Iceland. The body was found on Wednesday afternoon in Sauðdrápsgil ravine, which is well off the beaten path and very few people pass through the area.
According to the police it seems the man has been dead for several months.
Tall young man with shoulder long blond hair
The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service reports that the body is of a young male who was 186 cm (6.1 feet) tall, with shoulder length blond hair. The man was dressed in black sneakers with a white star, dark blue pants and a dark blue hoodie with the inscription “quicksilver” on the front. Anyone who has information on the identity of the man is asked to contact the Police in Southern Iceland.
The police has not yet established the circumstances under which the young man died. According to the local news site visir.is police have not eliminated any options, including foul play.
Police unable to establish the identity of the man
Sveinn Kristjá Rúnarsson, the Chief Superintendent of the Police in Southern Iceland, told the local news service Vísir.is that the police has not yet been able to identify the man. The police is combing through databases of missing persons to find someone who fits the description of the man.
The authorities have no record of anyone fitting the description having gone missing in the past few years.
Two young males have been listed as missing in Iceland in the past few years, an Icelandic national Matthías Þórarinsson who went missing in 2010 and a German traveller Christian Mathias Markus who disappeared in 2014. Visir.is reports that the Police have been able to establish conclusively that the body belongs to neither Matthías nor Christian.
Matthias disappeared without trace shortly before Christmas 2010. The burnt down wreck of his car was then found by mount Esja, North of Reykjavík in January 2011. Christian Mathias Markus disappeared in the Westfjords in September 2014. His car was discovered abandoned in the parking lot of the cliffs of Látrabjarg on September 23 last year.
Hikers in a Laxárdalur valley north of the village of Höfn in South Eastern Iceland. The body was found on Wednesday afternoon in Sauðdrápsgil ravine, which is well off the beaten path and very few people pass through the area.
According to the police it seems the man has been dead for several months.
Tall young man with shoulder long blond hair
The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service reports that the body is of a young male who was 186 cm (6.1 feet) tall, with shoulder length blond hair. The man was dressed in black sneakers with a white star, dark blue pants and a dark blue hoodie with the inscription “quicksilver” on the front. Anyone who has information on the identity of the man is asked to contact the Police in Southern Iceland.
The police has not yet established the circumstances under which the young man died. According to the local news site visir.is police have not eliminated any options, including foul play.
Police unable to establish the identity of the man
Sveinn Kristjá Rúnarsson, the Chief Superintendent of the Police in Southern Iceland, told the local news service Vísir.is that the police has not yet been able to identify the man. The police is combing through databases of missing persons to find someone who fits the description of the man.
The authorities have no record of anyone fitting the description having gone missing in the past few years.
Two young males have been listed as missing in Iceland in the past few years, an Icelandic national Matthías Þórarinsson who went missing in 2010 and a German traveller Christian Mathias Markus who disappeared in 2014. Visir.is reports that the Police have been able to establish conclusively that the body belongs to neither Matthías nor Christian.
Matthias disappeared without trace shortly before Christmas 2010. The burnt down wreck of his car was then found by mount Esja, North of Reykjavík in January 2011. Christian Mathias Markus disappeared in the Westfjords in September 2014. His car was discovered abandoned in the parking lot of the cliffs of Látrabjarg on September 23 last year.
