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Drysdale Street fire claims fifth victim

Oct 13, 2012 News

Yolanda Cort, the badly burned victim of the Charlestown fire that claimed four lives, has succumbed from her injures.
Hospital sources said that Cort passed away around 20:00 hrs yesterday in the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where she had spent the past two weeks.
Relatives had told Kaieteur News that the badly burned mother of two was in a semi-conscious state and that doctors had given her a 50-50 chance of survival.
Cort, of Lot 2 Drysdale Street, Charlestown, sustained severe burns on September 29, when a fire of still unknown origin, gutted her home.
The fire claimed four other lives, among them Cort’s two daughters, Kelisha Solomon, aged three and one-year-old Akesha Cordis. Another woman, Abiola Taylor and her four-year-old son Justin Taylor also perished.
Post mortems revealed that they had all died from smoke inhalation.

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