A MURDER inquiry has been launched after the discovery of a man's body in Eastwood Road, Sittingbourne on Friday night.

He had been fatally injured when Kent Ambulance Service, called shortly before midnight, alerted police, and he was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital.

One local man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and another is being sought.

Initially there was difficulty establishing the victim's identity but it known that he was 34 and local.

Police are also keen to talk to a group of men and women who were in Eastwood Road at the time of the incident.