Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV

November 16, 2009

AFTERNOON UPDATE: Authorities await fire victim’s identity


BLUEFIELD, Va. – As of Monday afternoon, Tazewell County authorities were still awaiting tests to confirm the identity of a man who died Nov. 13 at a structure fire along Big Branch Road near Bluefield, Va.

Major H.C. Boyd with the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office said investigators were still waiting from test results from the Virginia Department of Forensic Science in Roanoke,Va. Foul play was not suspected, he said.

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