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Calgary police are investigating after a maintenance worker at the CORE Shopping Centre discovered a man’s body inside a washroom wall.

Spokeswoman Emma Poole said a worker was called Monday morning to fix a toilet that wouldn’t flush in a women’s washroom in the downtown mall.

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“If you were to look at the toilet, there’s a panel behind it so that when people move it would automatically flush,” she said. “When they removed that panel, they found a deceased person behind that wall.”

Yellow caution tape was draped across the bathroom entrance as security guards turned people away Monday. Early in the afternoon, people in the nearby food court were eating and others were using the men’s bathroom as police ducked in and out of the women’s bathroom.

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Later Monday afternoon police ruled out foul play in the case.

Ted Petrow said he was in the fourth floor men’s washroom at 9:30 a.m. when security staff cleared both washrooms.