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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Teen dies 3 days after being burnt in Gasparillo fire

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Radhica De Silva
1118 days ago
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Aaliyah Chattergoon consoles her father Louis Chattergoon last Saturday, after his mother, Everlina Miller, was killed in a house fire. Four family members have now died as a result of the fire.

Aaliyah Chattergoon consoles her father Louis Chattergoon last Saturday, after his mother, Everlina Miller, was killed in a house fire. Four family members have now died as a result of the fire.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Kim­ber­ly Chat­ter­goon, the teenag­er who was se­vere­ly burnt in Sat­ur­day’s dead­ly fire, has suc­cumbed to her in­juries at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The 16-year-old girl had been in the In­ten­sive Care Unit since Sat­ur­day, af­ter she was res­cued from the fire which killed five-year-old Amy Chat­ter­goon, grand­moth­er Ever­li­na Miller, 73, and La Keisha Grant, 21, who was preg­nant with her first child.

Rel­a­tive Rhona Charles said yes­ter­day the fam­i­ly was dis­traught over Kim­ber­ly’s death. She said all the skin from her face had been burnt off and she nev­er re­gained con­scious­ness.

Mean­while, the fam­i­ly is get­ting help from the Sa­cred Heart RC Church, friends and neigh­bours. How­ev­er, they are still in dire need of help to re­build their home.

Amy’s fa­ther Wil­fred Chat­ter­goon al­so begged mem­bers of the pub­lic to stop shar­ing the video of her daugh­ter scream­ing for help while he was be­ing burnt alive.

Say­ing her screams con­tin­ue to haunt him, Chat­ter­goon said the peo­ple who record­ed the fire and shared the video are caus­ing even more dis­tress to them.

The fire start­ed around 2.15 am at Caratal Road, Gas­par­il­lo.

Rel­a­tive Niki­ta Bap­tiste start­ed smelling smoke and saw flames leap­ing from a room on the sec­ond floor.

Bap­tiste start­ed evac­u­at­ing her rel­a­tives as the flames spread wild­ly. Grant’s boyfriend Trey tried to get her out of the house but she turned back to re­trieve some­thing and then be­came trapped in­side.

Of­fi­cers led by ASP Ghool, Sgt Mungroo, Cpl John­son and PC Boodram are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Any­one want­i­ng to as­sist the fam­i­ly can make do­na­tions to Chat­ter­goon’s First Cit­i­zens Bank ac­count, Ac­count Num­ber, 2594621.


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