Two persons perished in an early morning fire yesterday morning at 38 Public Road, Kitty after they failed to escape the flames, while the occupants of an adjoining house which was also razed managed to get out but saved nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Dead are Cyril Robinson, a 90 year-old pensioner and his relative, 17-year-old Alfred Stephens. “The charred remains of Cyril Robinson and Alfred Stephens were later found among the debris,” the police reported in a press release. Police said the origin of the fire, so far, was unknown.
Stabroek News understands that there was no electricity at the time to the house owned by Robinson and occupied by