Family loses home in mystery fire

Yasin Hamid with five of his six children

Yasin Hasim and family, expecting to welcome the newest member next month, are now without a home after fire gutted their house at Felicity, on the East Coast Demerara around noon yesterday.

Up to press time, it was unclear what caused the fire at the Lot 22 Felicity Railway Embankment three-bedroom house that Hasim, his pregnant wife, their six children and his father called home.

No one was at home when the fire started, shortly after Hasim ate his lunch and left for the neighbouring Success village to pick up a tool, before returning to work at Atlantic Gardens. “…When I reach the