VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, say it appears a human foot inside a running shoe has washed ashore, the latest in roughly a dozen such cases since 2007.
In a statement, police say the foot and leg bone were seen late Tuesday afternoon floating in the water along the shore of Vancouver’s False Creek, a body of water that wraps around the downtown core.
Police so far have no theories about how the foot ended up in the water. They say the B.C. Coroners Service is also involved.
In the past four years, about a dozen feet encased in shoes have washed up on beaches near Vancouver, along the southern Georgia Strait and off Washington state.