Police in Spanish Town, St Catherine are trying to ascertain the identity of a man whose body was found on a train line in Cromarty yesterday.

Reports are that about 9 a.m. residents stumbled on the body and called the police. When they arrived, the body was seen with its face blown off.

The killing is the fifth to have occurred in the St Catherine North Division within a 24-hour period. About 4:15 Sunday afternoon, Ricardo Powell, Stafford Dawkins, Kemar Brown and an unidentified man were shot dead by gunmen.

The police said the men were at a bar on Melissa Crescent in Crescent district, when three men approached, brandished guns and fired shots killing all four men.

St Catherine North has seen a spike in homicides with 96 murders up to Sunday. This is 35 more than the corresponding period last year.