HALIFAX – Police say a man has died after the car he was working on suddenly caught fire as he welded underneath it.
RCMP say they received a call just after noon Friday that the man had been seriously injured at an auto shop in Westphal on Highway 7.
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The Mounties say the preliminary investigation indicates the car caught fire quickly and became engulfed in flames as the man worked under the vehicle.
They say 58-year-old Peter Kempton of Dartmouth was taken to hospital and died Saturday morning.
Police and the Department of Labour and Advance Education are investigating.
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