A man is now dead and a family of four homeless, after an early morning fire gutted a two-storey house at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara yesterday.
Dead is Thakur Singh, 59, who lived in the garage of his nephew’s Lot 479 Fourth Street, Diamond Housing Scheme home.
According to Jitendra Singh, the owner of the property, he was abruptly awakened from his sleep around 3 am yesterday by a noise in his house. He said he and his wife and two children were asleep upstairs, while his uncle who dwelled in the garage was downstairs.
“… I thought was probably
