Sascha Wil­son &

Kellyann Lemessy

Po­lice sus­pect ar­son in a fire that de­stroyed a house in Guayagua­yare Vil­lage, Ma­yaro, on Fri­day.

A care­tak­er who lived in the house at Fer­ri­er Cir­cu­lar was not there when the fire broke out around 9 am. A res­i­dent, who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty, said vil­lagers pan­icked when they saw the house on fire since they did not know whether he was in­side.

Sec­onds af­ter the house went up in flames, three men and a woman were seen flee­ing in a car. The res­i­dent said be­fore the fire, the care­tak­er had a dis­pute with a woman.

“Right now the fam­i­ly is fright­ened and trau­ma­tised for their son’s life be­cause this could have end­ed up in a dif­fer­ent di­rec­tion. The vil­lagers were afraid that they had knocked him out in the home and he was in the fire be­cause we were call­ing his phone and he was not an­swer­ing, so there was a lot of pan­ic in the com­mu­ni­ty. “

She said they lat­er learnt that the care­tak­er was at a rel­a­tive’s home.

Ma­yaro Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.