Updated: Man found dead in industrial furnace

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The police are investigating the death of a man whose corpse was found in an industrial furnace in a workshop in Bugibba yesterday.

The grim discovery was made at 9.30 p.m. in Damascus Road.

The badly burned corpse is believed to be that of 20-year-old Gaetano Romano from St Paul's Bay, who worked at his father's shop Cinque Stelle Services, which is adjacent to the place where his corpse was found. It is understood that he was found by his father.

Sources said the police are treating the case as murder and looking at the possibility that he had suffered blows to the head.

Magistrate Giovanni Grixti is holding an inquiry. An autopsy was held but the results were inconclusive, the police said.