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Police investigation underway after body is found on side of Kansas City highway

Police on Sunday said they were investigating the death of a man whose body was found by a driver along a Kansas City highway.

Officers responded shortly before 8 a.m. to check on reports of a body that had been found along the side of Interstate 435 near Bannister Road.

Arriving officers found the body along the the northbound lanes of I-435. Police were waiting for the medical examiner to determine the man’s cause of death.

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