[Reporter Lin Yizhang/Report from Chiayi] An 86-year-old man surnamed Tu in Dalin Township, Chiayi County, did not return home after arriving at his banana plantation yesterday afternoon. His family went to search today and found the old man lying on a hillside near the banana plantation, his whole body scorched and charred The Chiayi District Prosecutor’s Office inspected the corpse today. The preliminary conclusion was that there was a fire in the bamboo grove yesterday. The old man was suspected of being choked by thick smoke and burned to death.

According to the investigation by the police, the old man surnamed Tu told his family yesterday that he would go to the banana orchard in Xiongjiao Mountain, and a fire broke out in the nearby bamboo forest at around 5:00 p.m. The old man was not seen.

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The old man did not return home, and his family went to the banana plantation to look for it. At 6:40 this morning, the body of the old man was found on the hillside near the banana plantation. His body was burnt to black.

The prosecutor and the police inspected it today, and judged that the fire in the bamboo grove may have spread rapidly and there was thick smoke. When the old man fled, he was choked by the smoke and fell to the ground and was burned to death.