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A young graduate student from Edmonton was found dead last week in a waste treatment facility in Bristol, England, one day after he arrived in the country to start university.

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Police have not said how Garrett Elsey, 22, died or how he ended up in a dumpster. His body was discovered by workers at a recycling plant on the outskirts of Bristol last Thursday morning.

“There are a lot of outstanding questions,” his uncle, Brent Elsey, told the Edmonton Journal.

Elsey had just enrolled at the University of Bristol on Wednesday for a master’s degree in international security. He then went out Wednesday night with a friend he knew from playing rugby in Canada.

The friends parted ways at the end of the night and workers at New Earth Solutions waste treatment unit found his body Thursday morning, the Daily Mailreports.

According to the British newspaper, police tracked the bin he was found in to a four-storey apartment complex near a popular bar and club district.