The woman who perished in Friday’s Port Kaituma fire along with her four children had been stabbed, a post-mortem yesterday revealed, according to a relative of the family.
It is still unclear if Lurlene La Cruz, 39, had been alive at the time of the fire which also claimed the lives of Lea La Cruz, 14, Labron La Cruz, 8, Lavette La Cruz, 3, and Levon La Cruz, 1. One of the siblings survived as she had gone to the police station to report that her father,
