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The body of a man was found hanging in a tree at the corner of Grove and 15th streets in Downtown Jersey City this morning, according to police reports.

When police arrived at the scene at around 8:21 a.m., the Jersey City Fire Department and an ambulance from the Jersey City Medical Center were already there, the report stated.

Emergency responders had already cut through the "white colored string" the man used to hang himself and had covered the body with a white sheet, police officers said. The string that remained on the tree was later removed, police said.

At around 8:25 a.m., a doctor from the JCMC pronounced the man dead, the report stated.

The victim could not be positively identified, police said, adding that he carried no identifying information.