A MAN\u2019S BODY has been found inside a burning vehicle in Co Armagh.<\/p>\n
At around 10pm last night, the PSNI received a report of a car on fire in the Harford Street area of Portadown in Co Armagh.<\/p>\n
PSNI officers attended to the scene, alongside personnel from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service who extinguished the fire.<\/p>\n
Ammunition Technical Officers were also tasked to the scene to conduct enquiries, and the PSNI has said there is no risk to the public.<\/p>\n
The PSNI said significant damage was caused to the car, and that a neighbouring property had a number of windows smashed, as well as scorch damage.<\/p>\n
Emergency services then found a man\u2019s body inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
He was pronounced dead at the scene and a post-mortem examination will be carried out in due course to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n
A PSNI spokesperson said the circumstances surrounding what happened are still under investigation, and enquiries are ongoing to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n
The PSNI has appealed to anyone who was in the area and witnessed what happened to make contact.<\/p>\n
A report can also be submitted online using the non-emergency reporting form via https:\/\/reporting.psni.police.uk\/appeals<\/p>\n
Members of the public can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at http:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN\u2019S BODY has been found inside a burning vehicle in Co Armagh. At around 10pm last night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48512,42,43,119373,7288,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-587939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-armagh","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-portadown","tag-psni","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}