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  • 9 months ago
In a heartbreaking incident on Thursday morning, Sookeah Bheem, who was wheelchair-bound, and her brother, Ramdath Bheem, who had suffered a stroke, perished together in a devastating fire at their home.
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00:00In a heartbreaking incident on Thursday morning, Sukia Beam, who was wheelchair-bound,
00:05and her brother, Ramdath Beam, who had suffered a stroke,
00:09perished together in a devastating fire at their home.
00:12The siblings lived in a house at Cotton Hill Junction in Bonadventure, Gasparilu.
00:17The fire, which reportedly began around 4.30 a.m., swiftly consumed the wooden and concrete structure.
00:23Sukia and Ramdath's niece and caretaker Martha shared her grief during an interview with TV6.
00:30This morning, my grandson called me and told me that, well, his friend called him and told him
00:36that they thought I'd die in the house here, too, right, and that the house was on fire.
00:42So when he called me and he said, the house on fire, where are you?
00:45I said, what? I just dropped everything I was in and I reached up the road.
00:50I get a call about 4.53. I lost two people who were close to me again
00:55because I lost my husband and son in an accident.
00:58I was in an accident where four people died in my car and I was this lone survivor
01:03and come back and lost two people again.
01:07Neighbours who spoke with TV6 expressed shock and disbelief over the tragic loss.
01:13I didn't hear a song, a song, a song. If them people do burn or die there, they die in their sleep with the smoke.
01:22I'm telling you, because you told people they cannot help themselves.
01:25I don't know. When it's about quarter past five, I still have a gap.
01:27And when I get up now, I hear the neighbor, which is gale,
01:30boiling hard. I hear the screen and hard. I hear them patak, patak.
01:33So I just plucked the bear paw on my surface and run down the hill.
01:39It is that there was nothing anyone could have done.
01:41The cause of the fire is unknown. Investigations are continuing.
01:45The cause of the fire is unknown.
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