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RI firefighters find burning body in cemetery

In what was originally dispatched as a brush fire turned out to be a burning body

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CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Cranston police have identified a Providence man in his 20s as the person whose body was found burning at a cemetery. Col. Marco Palombo Jr. tells The Providence Journal that police are following several leads in a homicide investigation.

He did not release the man’s identity, saying authorities were still working to notify his family.

Firefighters were called to the Pocasset Cemetery on Wednesday night for a brush fire. There, they discovered that the flames were coming from a dead body.

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