Police conducting welfare check find dead body in Melbourne home

Investigators are awaiting the result of an autopsy after police found a man’s body while doing a welfare check at a Melbourne home.

The body of the man, aged in his 30s, was found at about 4.30pm at a home in Briar Hill in Melbourne's northeast yesterday afternoon.

Homicide detectives were called in and the death is being treated as suspicious.

It is not known how the man died.

Anybody with information about the incident is urged to contact CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.