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An early morning fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, yesterday destroyed a fully furnished, five-bedroom house in Port Mourant, Corentyne, leaving a security guard, his wife and their three children homeless.
Tilack Sookram, 37, of Lot 41 Port Mourant, Corentyne, told this newspaper that he and his wife left home early yesterday morning. He explained that he left to go to work and his wife decided that she would make an early morning trip to the market.
When his wife returned home around 7.30 am, he said, she discovered the upper flat of their house engulfed in flames and her three children in the bottom flat unaware of the fire. He said his wife began running and yelling for them to come out on the road, which they immediately did. He explained that his children told him “they ain’t know how it start.”
Sookram said neighbours who ventured out to assist were only able to retrieve a television set from the house. He estimated that he lost $800,000 in household items in the fire along with his savings of $375,000.
He said he suspected the fire could be electrical in origin, since he has always experienced electrical problems in the house. “Me does get current problem from the post, majority time bulb blowing and so; me can’t use more than one electrical thing at one time. Nuff time me had to fix back the fridge and so,” he said. pu hi al
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