Firefighters have been called to a block of flats in Perth where the body of a man was discovered after allegedly being attacked with a hammer.
Two appliances from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service raced to the scene on Scott Street at around 4.30pm on Wednesday.
Police officers remain at the scene after the body of a man, named locally as Ian Menzies, was discovered within a ground floor property on Monday night.
A spokesperson for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service confirmed they have been called following ‘reports of smoke inside the building’.
It is not currently known whether the smoke is coming from the property where the grim discovery was made.
The SFRS spokesperson said: "We were alerted at 4.36pm on Wednesday, June 9 to reports of a dwelling fire at a property on Scott Street in Perth.
"Operations Control mobilised two appliances to the scene, where firefighters extinguished the fire before leaving the scene shortly after 5pm."
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