A 56-year-old Miller County man died Saturday afternoon when a tractor caught fire in a pasture on U.S. Highway 82 about five miles west of Garland City.

The man’s name was not immediately released pending notification of next of kin, said Miller County Coroner Eddie Hawkins.

The man was pronounced dead by Hawkins at 5:42 p.m. at Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana. The cause of death was not immediately known and an autopsy was ordered, Hawkins said.

The man was plowing some land about 4:30 p.m. Saturday at 20292 Highway 82 in Miller County when ...