RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

Two sis­ters were killed in a fire on Thurs­day morn­ing be­lieved to be from a fire­bomb­ing at their home in Curepe.

They were iden­ti­fied as Aman­da Charles, 30, and her sis­ter Ali­cia Charles, 31.

Ali­cia’s hus­band, Fi­del Guer­ra was al­so in­jured and is cur­rent­ly ward­ed in hos­pi­tal.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 12.10 am po­lice re­ceived a re­port that a house was on fire along Watts Street, Curepe.

When of­fi­cers ar­rived, they found the sis­ters and Guer­ra on the ground out­side of the home un­con­scious.

The para­medics were no­ti­fied and they were all tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope for treat­ment.

How­ev­er, Aman­da was pro­nounced dead at 12.58 am and her sis­ter sub­se­quent­ly died sev­er­al min­utes lat­er.

Dur­ing a vis­it in the area, Guardian Me­dia was told by neigh­bours that they were out­side lim­ing when they heard an ex­plo­sion and saw a car speed­ing off.

“We no­ticed smoke com­ing from the ground floor of the apart­ment so we run over to try and help. The fire spread fast and like the peo­ple were trapped. We got a sledge­ham­mer and we start pound­ing away at the door. Then when we couldn’t get through we tried the win­dow and got through the two bur­glar-proof­ing and that’s how we got all three of them out­side but they were un­con­scious al­ready,” one neigh­bour said.

The neigh­bours said that it was on­ly re­cent­ly that the three moved in­to the area and was known to keep by them­selves.

“They seemed like qui­et peo­ple. Would on­ly see them go­ing to work and back home. We didn’t know them per­son­al­ly oth­er than that but is neigh­bours so we tried to save them. Sor­ry the women died, we on­ly heard they died when we woke up,” an­oth­er neigh­bour said.

Po­lice of­fi­cers said in­ves­ti­ga­tions were on­go­ing.

Fire Pre­ven­tion of­fi­cers are yet to de­ter­mine the cause and ori­gin of the fire.