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Man's body found in sleeping bag near Highway 24 off-ramp in Oakland

PIX Now -- Monday afternoon headlines from the KPIX newsroom
PIX Now -- Monday afternoon headlines from the KPIX newsroom 08:03

OAKLAND – A man was found dead in a sleeping bag Monday afternoon on a freeway off-ramp behind UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The CHP was called by Oakland police at 1:59 p.m. about a person on the off-ramp from eastbound state Highway 24 to Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

Officers responded and located a man wrapped in a sleeping bag, CHP Officer Karina Oseguera said. Paramedics were already there when CHP officers arrived and had declared the man dead.

A cause of death has not been determined.

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