Tuesday, September 21, 2021, around 9:00 a.m. at Street La Justice prolonged in Petit-Goâve, in the Sunday market area, a fire followed by an explosion broke out in a house where fuel was sold and stored illegally.

The fire which completely destroyed the clandestine depot, spread to 3 other houses and destroyed part of the goods of the small merchants nearby

The charred body of the fuel seller known as Evens was found inside one of the houses.

According to the Civil Protection Committee of this town, the victim was storing two barrels of gasoline in his depot, when the gasoline spilled and flowed onto the roadway of the adjoining street before catching fire.

IH/ iciHaiti / Guyto Mathieu (Correspondent Petit-Goâve)