Fire destroys house at River Land, St Philip

A woman is assisting police with investigations into a house fire at River Land, St Philip this morning.

According to police, the one-bedroom wooden house owned and occupied by Keith Gittens, 53, was destroyed by the blaze which was reported about 7:30 a.m.

No one was home at the time of the fire. The house was uninsured.

Two fire tenders with a team of nine officers from the Barbados Fire Service, led by Divisional officers Tremelle Perch and Fernando McAllister, responded to the fire.

The fire was extinguished by 9:37 a.m.