Six homeless after fire in Torani compound

A family of six watched all their possessions burn to nothing yesterday afternoon after the house they were living in was consumed by flames.

Reports says that Richardo Harris, who lived in a two-bedroom house situated in the Torani compound, East Berbice-Corentyne, had just left the house with his wife, who is five months pregnant, and four children, when they  saw smoke rising from the direction of one of the house’s bedrooms.

Upon seeing the smoke, the family dashed back to the house to try to quell the flames but by the