Police presence on Cotton Street (Image: Contributed)
EMERGENCY services were sighted on a residential street in Leigh this morning.
Residents reported seeing numerous police vehicles and an ambulance along Clifton Street at around 8.45am on Tuesday, May 23.
Greater Manchester Police have confirmed that they were in attendance after the body of a man was found in an address on Cotton Street, just off Firs Lane and not far from Parsonage Retail Park.
The incident is not believed to be suspicious and it has since been referred to the coroner.
Paramedics from the North West Ambulance Service attended and took a second man from the property to hospital for treatment.
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