A total of 24 persons lost their homes yesterday morning after two apartment buildings at Castello Housing Scheme, in Georgetown, were destroyed by an electrical fire.
The fire started around 11.30 and destroyed a two-storey concrete structure that housed a church and a house at Lot 75 Castello Housing Scheme, and gutted the house to the immediate south, which housed the “Soup Hut.”
According to the acting Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edoo, the fire was electrical in origin. Edoo confirmed that 24 persons occupied the two buildings.