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Cane Grove human torch succumbs

Aug 13, 2009 News

A young businessman who set himself alight and then plunged through the window of his burning house two Sundays ago succumbed to his injuries over the past weekend despite the efforts of medical personnel at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Nazim Khan, who resided at 41 Virginia, Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, died on Saturday last even as attempts were being made to surgically repair the damage to his body as a result of the fire which also destroyed his house and business.
Nazim Khan, a former policeman and a former foreman at the Enmore Estate, had sustained third degree burns all over his body. He collapsed in his yard after plunging head first through a window.
The man’s reputed wife, Chandrowtie Baichan, called Reema, had fled the house with her baby, shortly before it was set alight.
Sources at the hospital told Kaieteur News that surgeons had already begun using parts of his body that were not damaged to repair the parts that sustained severe burns.
A post mortem examination was performed on his body last Monday.
Investigators had stated that Khan left his home around 19:00 hours two Saturdays ago to attend a wedding in the village.
Upon returning home, he and Baichan became engaged in a heated argument during which, the woman’s screams were heard by the police in the station opposite Khan’s house.
According to the police, the woman managed to flee the house with her daughter and seek refuge at the station.
Khan, who was apparently under the influence of alcohol, then doused himself with kerosene and struck a match.

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