SEVERAL persons are now homeless after an early-morning fire ravaged their home at Lot B-2, Bent Street, Wortmanville on Saturday.

Reports are that the fire which started sometime around 02:30hrs destroyed the upper and lower flats of the building. It is suspected that the fire may have been set by persons following a disagreement.

A woman and her relative lived at the bottom flat while five of their relatives lived on the top flat of the building.

A Guyana Chronicle reporter who lives nearby said that he was awakened by the fire shortly after 02:30.”I saw the fire at the back of the upstairs area and then I called out to everybody, “ he said. By then the fire was already spreading through the building, and he noted that the flames engulfed the building within minutes.

He said that members of the Guyana Fire Service responded to the scene and managed to contain the inferno to one building.

The fire department is investigating to ascertain the cause of the fire.