A fire of unknown origin gutted a two-storey home located at 3rd Avenue, Bartica yesterday at around 1 pm leaving an elderly man dead and his daughter nursing burn injuries to her face and hand at the Bartica Regional Hospital.
The dead man has been identified as Albert James Hopkinson also called ‘Major’, a 94-year-old. His son, Anthony Hopkinson, of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, told Stabroek News last evening that he cannot say exactly what happened. His father died after being air-dashed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). Meanwhile his sister, Dawn Hopkinson, a 54-year-old seamstress who lived with her father at 3rd Avenue is currently a patient at the Bartica Regional Hospital for injuries sustained while trying to save her father from the blazing fire.