Sascha Wil­son

A Rio Claro fam­i­ly is call­ing on po­lice to act swift­ly and ar­rest the sus­pect be­hind what they be­lieve was an ar­son at­tack that de­stroyed a house and two trucks on Mon­day morn­ing.

The ear­ly-morn­ing blaze, which oc­curred some­time be­fore 7 am along Cu­napo South­ern Main Road in Cuche Vil­lage, gut­ted a four-bed­room house and two trucks. Rel­a­tives be­lieve the in­ci­dent stemmed from a fam­i­ly feud over prop­er­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly the house that was de­stroyed. Navin Rat­tan, who lives next door and owned one of the de­stroyed trucks, said he was asleep with his daugh­ter when he was awak­ened by the sound of crack­ling flames. “I was sleep­ing with my daugh­ter on the bed right where my daugh­ter is. That win­dow buss with that heat—that win­dow could have fall on my daugh­ter face,” he re­called.