A foreign man was found dead at about 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday in an apartment in Hangzhou City, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, local police said.

Police of Shangcheng District received a tip-off and found the body in a rented apartment near the Qiantang River.

Police said they believed the man was of Italian nationality, and an investigation into his death is under way.

(Xinhua News Agency July 16, 2008)