The Hanover Police Division are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of an elderly man who perished in a fire at his home on Friday (October 29)

Dead is 70-year-old Cecil Dinham a retiree of Station Road, Kingsvale, Hanover.

Reports from the Kingsvale are that about 6:00 a.m., residents reportedly saw the house on fire and alerted them, the Fire Department was also alerted.

On their arrival, the house was seen on fire.

After cooling down operation subsided, the charred remains of Dinham was seen among the debris.