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Zelina Henry
– “Meh get so bassody and meh run out and forget about meh baby,” mother
By Romila Boodram
A 13-month-old baby was burnt into ashes after his parents ran out of their burning house to save themselves last Thursday at Grant Everette-Regina, Lower Pomeroon River
Dead is little Neyo Blunt. The fire is believed to have started some time before 10:00pm.
According to reports, the couple was sleeping with the child when they were awoken by “the heat.”
At the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday, the child’s mother, Zelina Henry, said, “I was sleeping. When me wake up the entire house was on fire so all me coulda think about was getting out. Me get so bassody that me forget me baby on the bed and run out.”
Henry, who hails from Hauraruni said that she left two of her older children with her mother at her birth place and went to Pomeroon River with her husband, Brian Blunt, who got a job there.
The couple stayed at a lodge provided by the older Blunt’s employer.
Brian Blunt
Brian Blunt said that he picks water coconut for a living. He explained that three months ago he was offered the job and took it.
“We went to bed about 7:00pm and I wake up at 10:00pm with fire all over the place and all I could have think about was getting out of there as soon as possible so we both run out,” Blunt recalled. He added that it was his first child.
Although the couple said that when they woke up their house was in flames, there were no visually injuries on their bodies.
The child’s father said that by the time he remembered that the child was trapped inside the flaming building, it was impossible to save him.
“When we go inside the house, everything burn up, the bed fall down and me baby burn up and fall on the ground. Only he foot bone showing, everything burn up,” Henry said.
The couple travelled to the city with the child’s remains in a black plastic bag.
They made a report at the Timehri Police Station and the child’s remains were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary.
Meanwhile, Police in a press release said that an investigation has been launched into the fire of so far unknown origin that occurred at about 22:00hrs on Thursday at Grant Everette-Regina, Lower Pomeroon River.
The release further stated that the infant’s parents were aroused by a loud sound and saw the building on fire. They ran out of the building which was completely destroyed.
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