A FIRE suspected to be deliberately set by a ‘strange-looking man’ on Sunday afternoon completely destroyed a furnished three-bedroom wooden house at Lot 76 D’Urban Backlands, leaving the owner homeless.

The owner has been identified as dumpsite employee, Corwyn Harry, who was not at home when the blaze consumed all his worldly possessions.

It was reported that the fire engulfed the cottage-style wooden house very rapidly, but three fire tenders from the Guyana Fire Service responded in a timely manner and extinguished the raging flames.

The nearby house was saved although water-soaked and the windows shattered.

Neighbours said that about three weeks ago, two women who are said to be friends of the owner and who were staying at the said house, tried to set it alight but villagers managed to douse the flames.

The police have since launched an investigation.