Fire of unknown origin destroyed a house at No.2 Settlement, Blairmont yesterday afternoon, leaving two people homeless.
The fire reportedly started around 1.30pm in the upper flat of the two-storey, three-bedroom house occupied by Abdool Hack Rahaman, 41. He told this newspaper that no one was upstairs when the fire started and that he was in a hammock downstairs. His sister, Hameda ‘Shireen’ Rahaman, 46, who occupied the bottom flat, said she and a sister-in-law, Nesha and another woman, Joanie Karim, were “picking rice” downstairs at the time.
