Montrose family loses home in fire

A pocket of fire can be seen in what remains of the Montrose house that was destroyed early yesterday morning

A fire of unknown origin has left three persons displaced after it destroyed their Montrose home in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

In wake of the fire, Karran Chetram, who lived with his daughter, Priya Chetram, and her husband, Ramraj Singh, in the two-storey Lot 178 Third Street, Montrose house, is now staying at the home of another daughter, Asha Ojha, in the village.

According to Ojha, she was contacted by her sister around 1 am and was told that the house was on fire. She said she immediately left her First Street home and went to see what was happening. She found that the entire upper flat was almost engulfed when she got there.