Police: 2 bodies found near bridge in St. Cloud

Published 9:26 am Monday, February 1, 2016

ST. CLOUD — Police said first responders found two bodies at the Mississippi River in St. Cloud, but that investigators don’t believe the cases are related.

St. Cloud Police Sgt. Jeffrey Janssen said police got a call Sunday afternoon about a person possibly on the ice. According to a press release, police and firefighters confirmed it was a dead woman on the ice south of the Granite City Crossing bridge.

The police received a missing person call earlier in the day and believe it’s the woman found on the ice.

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Janssen said officers on the scene found a second body on the rocks. He said it was the body of an unidentified man and appeared to have been there for a substantial amount of time.