 The deceased remains of a male person were located in the state forest yesterday. Two male persons located in the body at approximately mid-day. We've set up an investigation centre at the Cuma Police Station with the assistance of the Homicide Investigation Unit and the QFRS. We're currently investigating the cause of the death. What has the post mortem shown? Any age? Well no, we don't have an age at this point in time. We can confirm he's a male person. The remains are currently undergoing scientific testing to ascertain those details. We can elaborate that we are exploring the possibilities of the fire and the remains are linked. However, we don't further scientific testing. We'll bring this to that conclusion. Was there any indication of the person who fell? We're investigating that and we really can't confirm or deny that at the moment. We are currently still examining the scene and our scientific section is still there. So we really can't say definite one way or the other. However, it is looking suspicious. We're there to find anything. We won't know that for quite a few days. We're testing for that but we won't know it for a few days. So you've got some fire investigators right there. Yeah, the fire investigators have been great. They've been helping us with that since yesterday. They will determine the actual seat of the fire and the pattern of the fire tool. Has there been anything found at the same belongings or anything? Have they provided you any information? We have found a couple of things yet but we can't elaborate on that yet because we haven't finished scientific examining them yet. So they're still at the scene and they're still in situ. So once we get them out and we'll hope to release them to help us identify the male person. Just how badly decomposed was the body do you think before the fire went through? We don't know that. We're currently investigating whether they happened at the same time. We do believe the body was there before the fire started but as to how long we don't know. So it was charred, there were charred remains? Yeah, the body was charred. No, there was a charred body. So the fire was a bushfire, not a back-leaning operation? No, it was a bushfire. Did anything come from the rope obviously? No, we're just being the local people and the main reason for the rope was just to stop traffic flow so we could have access to the scene. So SES are out there today saying that they can find the condition of the charred ground at the moment. Is that helpful, hinder the operation? Well, it can help in some way because all the long grass has burned away however as in relation to the destruction of evidence obviously it hinders that possibly. But the SES have been great, there's over 20 of them out there today and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank those volunteers for their help today. Have you had any missing persons in that area recently? We're working with the Missing Persons Bureau and they're providing us valuable information and we're canvassing all those people at the moment, the missing person around the area and also in New South Wales. It's not too bad actually, it's all burnt out so it's quite easy to search however the destruction of evidence obviously from the fire is a bit of an issue. Is there anything that I'd like to state from the public at the moment? Well, we're just appealing the public, like we said yesterday we believe that an incident occurred around the 6th or 7th of October and we're appealing for anyone in the in the Mount Nimble area the Mount Nimble Road area at Austinville if they saw anything suspicious or saw any people in that area if they could give us a call, contact crime stoppers or their local police station. We'd also like to thank the people that have already called up we've had quite a few calls over the last 24 hours and some of that information has been quite valuable. Could you narrow it down to anyone in particular who doesn't belong to these friends? It's open-ended. Absolutely, we have no idea who the person is at the station. It's pretty tough for a police investigation isn't it when you don't know who the person is? It is, yeah. That's obviously our first protocol is to try and identify who the person is and then ascertain where they are. There's no obvious signs of trauma that you can find from the person that was among the body? The person was being completed but the scientist hasn't got his report yet so I'm going to tell us who the man was.