POWAY---- A public works employee got a grisly surprise this Halloween when he discovered a partially decomposed body hanging from a tree, according to the San Diego County medical examiner's office.

The employee found the body at 9:10 a.m. Saturday while clearing brush in a secluded area of Hilleary Park on 13500 Community Road.

The remains of the partially-skeletonized body will be examined Sunday, said medical examiner's investigator Korletta Howrish, and until then it's not clear how old the man was or his ethnicity.

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