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The body of a man was found burning on a South Los Angeles sidewalk Monday morning, police said.

Police were called to 57th and Fortuna streets about 3:30 a.m., said Officer Rosario Herrera of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Office. The name and age of the dead man were not immediately known.

Homicide detectives were using a specially trained dog to determine if an accelerant was present in the man’s clothing, police said.

“We don’t think that the clothing that this person was wearing would be enough to set him on fire,” said LAPD Capt. George Rodriguez.

—Staff and wire reports

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