YEREVAN, MARCH 4, ARMENPRESS. The Prodigy frontman Keith Flint, one of the most recognizable figures on the British techno scene, has been found dead at his home aged 49, the UK’s Press Association news agency reported.

He was found unresponsive at his house in Essex, England, on Monday morning, PA reported.

"We were called to concerns for the welfare of a man at an address in Brook Hill, North End, just after 8.10am on Monday," a spokesman for Essex Police said in a statement.

"We attended and, sadly, a 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin have been informed," the statement added.

"The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner."

Shortly after the news was reported, the official Prodigy account of Twitter said that Flint committed suicide.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan