Man’s body found burned beyond recognition in Philadelphia driveway

A suspicious decease probe is underway aft a man’s assemblage was recovered burned beyond designation successful a driveway successful Philadelphia.

The grisly find came soon aft 3 a.m. Tuesday greeting erstwhile constabulary and firefighters arrived to douse the flames and recovered a antheral of chartless property “with terrible burns laying successful the driveway” successful the Rhawnhurst neighborhood, officials said successful a quality release.

A state tin and spent matches were recovered adjacent to the body.

The antheral was pronounced dormant connected the country astatine 3:23 a.m. Investigators person not indicated yet whether foul play is suspected and it’s chartless if the idiosyncratic was killed earlier being acceptable connected fire. An authoritative origin of decease is pending an autopsy.

Neighbors told ABC 6 Philadelphia the house had been sitting vacant for respective years but was precocious renovated and enactment up for sale.

A idiosyncratic who called 911 heard the dependable of the occurrence and went outside. He approached the flames intending to enactment the blaze retired earlier realizing determination was a body.

“I got terrified,” a antheral who did not privation to beryllium identified retired of fearfulness for his ain information told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “I conscionable ran away.”

A neighboring obstruction appeared to person been damaged by the occurrence but the blaze did not dispersed further.