Mystery fire guts Subryanville house, losses pegged at $35M

– remigrant, tenant homeless

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Fire of unknown origin yesterday morning gutted a two-storey home leaving in its wake an estimated $35 million in losses and a 68-year-old re-migrant and his tenant homeless.

It was a neighbour who first spotted flames coming from a back window of the upper flat of the Lot 260 Fifth Avenue, Subryanville property around 07:40 hrs and immediately raised an alarm.

The re-migrant, Mervyn Butts, had left the property about half an hour before the fire started. The tenant who lived in…..


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