A MAN was burnt about the body in the wee hours of yesterday morning in a fire which partially destroyed his two-flat wooden house at Lot 17 Owen Street, Kitty, Georgetown. Residents said the fire started  about midnight, while they were asleep, and they were awoken by screams for help from the next-door neighbour, while they saw thick smoke interspersed with fire billowing from the house.
They could not say how the fire started, but noted that the man lived alone after his mother died last month, and they believe that he was alone and in bed when the fire began.
The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) were summoned  and when they arrived, they doused the flames to prevent them from spreading to nearby buildings in Owen Street.
The man, Steve (only name given), is now a patient in the Burns Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) with burns to his back and hands.
Neighbours said the young man, approximately 22 years old, was the victim of a robbery at his home last week, and it is quite unfortunate that a fire has now deprived him of all his worldly possessions.
Residents are of the opinion that the burnt house is haunted. They said that some seven persons who once resided at the place all died under mysterious circumstances.