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Five Indians burnt alive in Jamaica
The incident took place at Jamaica's Monymusk sugar estate on Sunday.
Five Indian nationals, three of them sugar consultants, were burnt to death in their eight-room cottage on the Monymusk sugar estate in Jamaica in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
According to The Jamaica Observer, forensic pathologists were collecting samples to correctly identify the male victims.
The fire, which police investigators on the scene said was caused by an electrical short circuit blazed for an estimated hour, the report said.
Fire officials said when the fire crew arrived, the occupants - Ajay Jadly, 35, his wife Garima Jadly, 30, their nine-year-old daughter, Natasha Jadly, and two other men, Anil Singh, 28, and Nakul Singh, 28 - were already dead.
The charred remains of the bodies lay in different sections of the wooden floor and drywall cottage.
Garima's body was toward the front of the house and seemed to have fallen to the ground when the floorboard burnt through. She was huddled over the body of her daughter, the report said.
The bodies of the men were found in the kitchen area where there was water sprouting from a burst pipe.
The three men were working as technical consultants on sugar estates across the island, including Monymusk and Frome in Westmoreland. Jadly, a sugar technologist, had been in the island since August, but his wife and daughter joined him six weeks ago.
According to the report, Jadly's contract would have been up this month and he was scheduled to return home on June 12.
Anil and Nakul Singh, who were working on turbine construction, came to Jamaica just over a week ago, on May 28, and had signed indefinite contracts.
Bimal Saigal, Second Secretary at the Indian High Commission was quoted as saying that, "We are sorry to hear that five relevant Indian lives have been lost here." "The task before us now, is to give them some decent last rites."
