00:00Poor father of seven and recent stroke victim, 60-year-old Bechan Samlal,
00:05died when a fire destroyed his sandhill tree Sparagpur home on Sunday afternoon.
00:10Samlal and his wife of over 30 years were separated, but she lived next to.
00:15At around 5.30 p.m., it was she who saw the fire and raised an alarm.
00:30Water on the pipes, so they decided to have a little bit of a final bucket and barrel,
00:35but it was too much.
00:42She says there were no screams coming from the home,
00:45and they desperately hoped he had gone for a walk and was not inside the home.
00:49However, when fire officers searched the home following the fire,
00:53Bechan's burnt body was recovered next to his bed.
01:11A cause for the fire is yet to be determined.
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