Octogenarian burns to death in Diamond home

Cynthia Persaud’s house (Photo by Tarick Persaud)

(Roxanne Clarke and Marcelle Thomas)

An octogenarian burned to death in her sleep during a fire which gutted her bedroom at her two-storey Diamond, East Bank Demerara home last night.

Dead is Cynthia Persaud, 82, called ‘Aunty Cynthie’