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Al­ready bur­dened with health chal­lenges, Gas­par­il­lo sib­lings Ram­nath and Sookeah Bheem met a trag­ic end yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter a dev­as­tat­ing fire con­sumed their home along Bonne Aven­ture Road.

Ram­nath, 64, a stroke sur­vivor who had mo­bil­i­ty dif­fi­cul­ties, and Sookeah, 79, who re­lied on a wheel­chair and crutch­es fol­low­ing mul­ti­ple leg surg­eries, were un­able to es­cape the blaze that start­ed around 4 am.

Fire­fight­ers ex­tin­guished the fire and lat­er dis­cov­ered Ram­nath’s re­mains near the liv­ing room, close to the front door. Of­fi­cials be­lieve his body fell through the burnt-out floor of his bed­room above. Mean­while, Sookeah’s re­mains were found in her bed­room at the back of the house. A Mer­cedes-Benz truck parked in the yard was al­so dam­aged.