Dead Man Found When Van Catches Fire In BK Gas Station, Cops Say

NEW YORK CITY — A man's dead body was found Monday night after a van erupted into flames in a Brooklyn gas station, police said.

Smoke billowed from a white van parked at the BP Gas Station on East 80th Street and Foster Avenue just after 6 p.m., police said.

Emergency responders extinguished the blaze then opened the doors to find a dead man, without any obvious signs of trauma, inside, said police.

The Medical Examiner's Office will determine the cause of death, police said.