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Jun 04, 2014 News
– Elderly man died before being rescued– relatives
The elderly man, who was pulled from a burning building, on Tuesday, had succumbed moments before firefighters could have retrieved his body.
Sew Sewsankar, 77, of Third Street Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara reportedly died as fire fighters battled a fire that had engulfed his home.
Sewsankar’s relatives have since stated that the man lives with his son but that he was at home alone, when the fire started.
His son, Sonny Sewsankar had gone for a walk, a short distance away.
“When me come back, me hear like he a holla inside dey and me run to de back fuh try fuh save he but de fire de too much. I even try fuh loose out the water from the tank to cool down de place to get he out,” the younger Sewsankar stated yesterday.
It is unclear what started the blaze but earlier reports suggested that the area had been experiencing bouts of low voltage and as such the elderly man had resorted to lighting a candle.
The candle reportedly caught something flammable that quickly engulfed the house. Neighbours recalled that they heard the man shouting for help from inside the heavily grilled building and then a loud explosion – presumably from a gas cylinder. The Fire Department subsequently arrived at the scene.
Firefighters struggled to cut through the grillwork and break through the back door of the house but by this time the flames had almost completely engulfed the upper flat of the two-storey building.
“Meh aint know what really take place with this fire, but when de fire department come I tell them leh we wet the steps to get inside cause a man dey inside dem ain’t pay me no mind,” the man’s son explained.
“De Fire department eventually come and soak down the place but by the time he been done dead. Meh say so because by then he stop holla… It could be from smoke inhalation or he mighta had a heart attack because he recently had quadruple bypass surgery for his heart.”
Relatives related that the man survived the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
“He been through a lot but he survived. He was in one of the Twin Towers when it went down in flames and he survived to come here to die,” relatives lamented.
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