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DETROIT (WWJ) — Police are investigating a car fire that may have resulted in the deaths of two people on Detroit’s east side.

Detroit police say the fire department responded to a call for a car fire in a vacant field near Lambert and Seneca Streets on Saturday. After the fire was extinguished they found two bodies in the backseat of the torched vehicle.

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Authorities say the two bodies were “burned beyond recognition.”

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The vehicle was a silver Honda Accord.

Police are still investigating and the bodies are being sent to the Wayne County Medical Examiner.

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