NASHUA – Police are investigating a death in Mine Falls Park after city workers found a body Monday morning.

Police were called shortly after 11 a.m. when Parks and Recreation employees working in the park found a woman’s body along a trail between Pine Street Extension and Ledge Street, according to Nashua police Sgt. Joe Molinari.

Lt. Frank Sullivan said the state medical examiner’s office was notified and was on scene by around 1 p.m. and said detectives were investigating it as a possible suicide.

A handful of police gathered outside the park entrance at the end of Pine Street Extension near Nashua Community Music School and several other buildings in the Millyard. Yellow crime scene tape surrounded a silver car parked near the park entrance.

The body was found along a trail between a small body of water known as The Cove that is fed by the Nashua River and the Nashua Canal Reservoir that branches of Mill Pond to the southeast.

Sullivan did not have any other information about the woman and that police were trying to notify her family. He said police found a handgun near the woman’s body.

“It’s being investigated as an apparent suicide at this time but the investigation is ongoing,” Sullivan said. “Anyone with information is urged to call Nashua police.”

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