State investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire that killed a 71-year-old man and his 77-year-old wife Sunday morning in Rabun County.

The fire that claimed the lives of Joseph and Phyllis Kneer started about 7 a.m. in the 3000 block of Blue Ridge Gap, said Glenn Allen, the spokesman for the Georgia insurance commissioner’s office.

“Their bodies were discovered in the rubble by firefighters and taken to a GBI crime laboratory for an autopsy and identification,” Allen said.

Investigators suspect the fire started in the kitchen area of the wood frame home.

No other details were released.

In other news:

he 55,000-ton building was imploded at 7 a.m. It fell at a 45-degree angle.

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