Man dies in New Grant house fire

Sascha Wil­son

Po­lice and fire of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a house fire in New Grant in which a 40-year-old man died last evening.

The charred re­mains found in the rub­ble are be­lieved to be those of Amar­nath Ram­nar­i­nesingh, a me­chan­ic of Fred­er­ick Set­tle­ment, Hin­dus­tan.

Po­lice said Ram­nar­i­nesingh, who lived with his 48-year-old com­mon-law wife, was a psy­chi­atric pa­tient of Ward One at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for eight years.

The woman told of­fi­cers that fif­teen min­utes be­fore the fire, he had threat­ened to burn down the house. She was down­stairs bak­ing around 6 p.m. when she smelt smoke and then saw it com­ing from the back of the house.

She in­ves­ti­gat­ed and saw the area en­gulfed in flames.

She con­tact­ed the Fire Ser­vices and po­lice. By the time fire­fight­ers ar­rived, the two-storey wood­en and con­crete house was al­ready ablaze. When they ex­tin­guished the flames, of­fi­cers found charred skele­tal re­mains in the down­stairs area near the front step.

The woman’s white Nis­san Y12 Wingroad was al­so de­stroyed. The re­mains were tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Mor­tu­ary for a post-mortem.

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