A 60-year-old man was charred to death in a fire at a garbage yard near Chulliyodu town in Nenmeni grama panchayat in Wayanad on Monday night.
The deceased was identified as Bhaskaran of Ambalakkunnu Paniya tribal settlement near Chulliyodu. The incident took place around 11 p.m.
Bhaskaran, a cattle caretaker, was sleeping in a makeshift plastic shed near the market, where Haritha Karma Sena volunteers had dumped plastic garbage after collecting it from houses in the panchayat.
