The Special Investigations Unit is investigating after the death of a 59-year-old man near Peterborough.

Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police reportedly responded to a call for a “man in distress” at around 3:15 p.m. Monday.

OPP officers located the man at a home in Douro Township, near Peterborough. He “was pronounced dead at the scene,” SIU officials said in a news release.

The SIU has assigned two investigators and two forensic investigators to the incident.

Officials are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact investigators at 1-800-787-8529.

The SIU is an arm’s length agency, which probes cases of police-involved death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.

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