Four persons are now homeless after a fire destroyed a house in East Canje on Sunday evening.
The owner of the house, Saeed Jahoor, believes that the fire was deliberately set.
The fire, which reduced the wooden structure to rubble, was initially seen coming from the back of the building situated at Adelph New Scheme, East Canje, shortly after 18:30h on Sunday.
At the time no one was at home.
Rookmanie Nowrang said her husband had gone to work and she had gone to her mother’s home a few buildings away to spend the night along with her two children ages nine and 12.
Saeed Jahoor and his wife Rookmanie Nowrang
According to her, she heard a neighbour screaming and sounded an alarm thinking that she was in the burning building.
“When me come I see the fire start to bun up everything that I had in the house. I couldn’t save anything,” she said.
The building was not connected to the national grid. The one-bedroom house was powered by a generator.
In listing some of the things that she would have lost, Nowrang said her house could not hold anything else.
“Me lost 2 TVs, a new bed, a freezer, and all my wears in the house and the house couldn’t take anything more with the 3-piece chair set and music set.”
Meanwhile, her husband Saeed Jahoor, a labourer attached to the Albion Sugar Estate said even though he uses gasoline it was not being stored close to the building.
“I aint feel it is the gasoline of the generator. I feel some foul play take place,” he said while noting that three months ago someone broke into the home while he was also working the night shift and his wife had gone to her mother’s house.”
He said when his wife returned home on that occasion the entire house was ransacked.
This is yet another tragedy to hit the family. Only one month ago a teenage son of the couple went missing in neighbouring Suriname after reportedly falling off of a fishing boat he was working on.
The family is hoping to be able to rebuild their house and can be contacted on telephone numbers (592) 604-2933 or (592) 726-8681. (G4)
