Gardaí investigating the discovery of human remains in a burning car in Finglas, Dublin, this morning are unable to determine the cause of death.
Such is the damage caused to the body by the fire that DNA tests will be required to confirm the deceased’s identity.
Initial indications based on information gleaned from the car suggest the deceased is a man living and working in Ireland for many years.
He worked in an embassy in Dublin and had a young family. He was last seen on Monday morning.
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Investigators are unable to tell if the deceased died before or after the fire started. There are some indications the death was the result of a “personal tragedy” but gardaí have not yet ruled out other lines of inquiry, a source said.
Dublin Fire Brigade responded to the scene at Killeek Bridge at Killeek Lane shortly after 11am on Monday, having received a report of a burning car.
The car was found in a field up a rural lane north of Dublin Airport.
Firefighters working to put out the blaze did not realise the car contained human remains until the fire was extinguished.
This meant the remains were in a “extremely poor” condition when they were subject to a preliminary examination by gardaí.
The Garda Technical Bureau has been dispatched to the scene to carry out a more detailed examination. The Office of the State Pathologist has also been notified and a postmortem will be arranged.
