{"id":24854,"date":"2024-12-10T16:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=24854"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:08:19","slug":"two-fires-in-region-six-claim-lives-and-destroy-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/two-fires-in-region-six-claim-lives-and-destroy-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Fires in Region Six Claim Lives and Destroy Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Kimberly Giddings | November 12, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tragedy struck Region Six on Monday as two fires claimed multiple lives and caused significant property damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In #64 Village, Corentyne, a 34-year-old woman and four of her children lost their lives in a fire of unknown origin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victims were identified as Hemwatie Singh, her children Kelvin (14), Cindy (11), Brandon (10), and Tomesh Ramjatan (2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the police, Singh\u2019s 17-year-old son, who was home at the time, managed to escape unharmed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reported that the fire started in the lower flat of their home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singh and her younger children reportedly attempted to flee but were overwhelmed by the flames and retreated upstairs, where they became trapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singh\u2019s husband was not home during the incident, as he was in police custody assisting with a cattle rustling investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remains of the victims have been taken to the Skeldon Public Hospital Mortuary, where post-mortem examinations are expected to be conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in New Amsterdam, a second fire destroyed Bob and Sons supermarket. Authorities have yet to determine the cause of this blaze, which caused extensive damage to the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Divisional Officer Clive McDonald of the Guyana Fire Service confirmed that investigations into both incidents are ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These devastating fires have left the community in shock as authorities work to uncover their causes and provide assistance to those affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kimberly Giddings | November 12, 2024 Tragedy struck Region Six on Monday as two fires claimed multiple lives and caused significant property damage. In #64 Village, Corentyne, a 34-year-old&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24855,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24854\/revisions\/24855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}