Bound body found in apartment fire
From Times Wire Reports
Firefighters in Brooklyn extinguished an apartment blaze only to discover the body of a man who had been bound with duct tape and set aflame.
Officials have not been able to identify the man, found in a basement apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section. Police said it was not clear whether the man was alive when he was set on fire with the help of an accelerant.
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