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Two men have described the awful moment they realised their friend had 'frozen to death'.

The pair had been huddled up next to the unnamed man in a city centre car park on the coldest night of the year.

Tragically they woke up "freezing cold" to find the man, aged 30, had died.

Emergency services rushed to the scene in John Bright Street on Tuesday night after reports of the body being found.

Paramedics arrived at around 11.25pm but sadly the man, aged in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Now two men who were also sleeping rough in the NCP car park behind the Alexandra Theatre, have told of the moment his body was found.

“I always sleep there, me and my friend. It was absolutely freezing cold,’’ one of them said.

“I was having a can of lager because I’m quite a bad alcoholic.

“And we were sleeping next to him and didn’t even realise.”

“Every night we sleep in the NCP car park. But not now because we woke up to “he’s dead, he’s dead.”

The second man added: “We got an ambulance because we didn’t know how long he was dead for.

“He could have got revived from the ambulance. Obviously there was nothing we could do for him.

“The police came in there and sealed it off as a crime scene.”

West Midlands Police said they are not treating the death as suspicious, and believe the man may have died from a drugs overdose.

A customer at the Victoria pub is reported to have found the victim outside the car park entrance in Station Street.

The man’s body was found hours before shocking new figures revealed almost 10,000 people were homeless in Birmingham .

This week has seen temperatures plummet to -6C in the city overnight.

A recent study by Shelter found that 9,560 are currently homeless in Birmingham, with the total for the region standing at 16,100.