Fire destroys elderly couple’s home at Met-en-meerzorg

Firefighters using buckets to douse the small fires last night

A two-bedroom unoccupied house belonging to an elderly couple at Met-en-meerzorg west, Railway View, West Coast Demerara was destroyed by fire around 8 pm yesterday in a suspected arson.

Lancelot Ross, 72, told Stabroek News that he lost his furniture, other household items, his father’s will among other personal documents and carpenter tools. The man also said that there were threats to burn the house down.

He and his wife, Patricia Cornelius, 64, were at their daughter, Mureen’s house at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo,