Toronto police are investigating after a body was found wrapped in a sheet in a Scarborough industrial yard Sunday evening.

Police were called to Passmore Ave. and State Crown Blvd. around 5:30 p.m. after the body was spotted.

Emergency crews found the man unresponsive, and after life-saving efforts were made, the man was pronounced dead on scene. Police say the coroner was then dispatched.

Const. David Hopkinson said police are investigating the incident as suspicious and trying to determine whether the death was criminal.

Toronto police detectives and Forensic Identification Services were scouring a shadowy lot Sunday night. Flashlights could be seen flitting across the moist earth beneath spindly trees bereft of leaves. Dozens of semi-trailers and cargo trucks were parked further back, along with several green and yellow tractors.

It wasn’t clear where police had discovered the body, but it appeared their search was concentrated on the east side of the lot, in a bushy area next to a large brick building. A banner on the front of the building read “Dynaplas Ltd.”

An SUV and a sedan pulled up shortly after 8 p.m. and a group of men with beards and turbans got out of the vehicles and started speaking with a police officer. One of the arrivals was Manjit Parmer, who told the Star that they were volunteers from the nearby Gursikh Sabha Sikh temple.

Parmer said the temple owns the lot and lets truckers and congregants park there. Earlier Sunday afternoon, a group of volunteers came to the lot to prepare for “spring cleaning” of the property on Monday, Parmer said.

“One guy was looking in the corner and said there’s some debris here. That’s when he noticed something, and they said: ‘Let’s get back.’ They thought it was a body,” Parmar said. “Something wrapped in something.”

Parmer said the volunteers called him, and he told them to call police.

With files from Laura DaSilva