Man's death sparks police inquiries

Police are investigating the death on Friday night of a Dunedin man who had been in a bar fight less than two hours before he died.

Ambulance and police were called to the 46-year-old  man's Lonsdale St address at 10.40pm on Friday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The man had earlier been seen in a fight in a central city bar.

Police were called to the fight by witnesses but it had dispersed by the time they got there.

There was no CCTV footage of the incident.

A specialist coroner is conducting a post-mortem examination today to determine the cause of death.

Police have not confirmed the cause of his death, and said it was not necessarily linked to the fight.

- Matthew Haggart/NZ Herald

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