A 49-year-old man perished in an apartment fire in the Amager section of Copenhagen last night.

“The fire probably occurred in or around the man’s bed,” Henrik Svejstrup from Copenhagen Police told Ekstra Bladet.

“The man was found found lifeless in the apartment. A doctor tried but failed to resuscitate him.”

Investigation continues
Svejstrup said that although the fire produced a lot of smoke, it was not necessary to evacuate the buildings other residents.

The investigation is ongoing, so police refused to confirm whether the dead man had been smoking in bed.

The deceased lived alone in the apartment and there were no other injuries.