Police are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose charred remains were discovered following a house fire in Todds Road, Longdenville, early Tuesday morning.

According to police reports, around 4 a.m. officers at the Longdenville Police Post received a call about a house on fire along Fletchers Road, Todds Road.

The officers observed that the fire had destroyed a small wooden and galvanise roofing sheet structure measuring approximately 10 by 10 feet. Beneath a metal bed frame inside the burnt remains, they found the charred body of a man.