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A 40-year-old man died af­ter a fire de­stroyed his two-storey home in Point Fortin on Sun­day night.

Po­lice said the blaze broke out short­ly af­ter 9.10 pm at a board-and-con­crete house along Reid Road Ex­ten­sion. Fire of­fi­cers from the Point Fortin and Mon Re­pos fire sta­tions re­spond­ed and brought the fire un­der con­trol.

Af­ter ex­tin­guish­ing the flames, of­fi­cers found the man in­side the con­crete sec­tion of the house.