Fire guts De Hoop rice bond

Workers of D Suklall Rice Industries cleaning up after a fire destroyed the bond holding close to $50 million in paddy, rice and equipment.

Fire gutted a bond containing $50M in rice and paddy as well as equipment belonging to D Suklall Rice Industries at De Hoop, Mahaica yesterday afternoon.

Proprietor Deonarine Suklall told Stabroek News that workers would spend the evening trying to save any paddy