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New Year Tragedy for Sierra Leonean Couple in Germany

New Year Tragedy for Sierra Leonean Couple in Germany

As most people celebrated their New Year’s Eve with champagne and other forms of merry making to welcome 2010, families and friends of two Sierra Leonean residents in Germany were greeted by shock and grief.  Photo: The house after the inferno)

Issa Kamara and his girlfriend Fatima Caulker were found in comma in their Hannover residence in Germany on Thursday January 31st. They later died in a hospital in the Western German city.

Issa 39, and Fatima 25, were said to have been poisoned by smoke, as a result of an inferno that was allegedly orchestrated by a Turkish restaurant owner (name unknown) underneath their premises. The restaurant owner reportedly died.

Issa Kamara, one of the deceased

Issa Kamara, one of the deceased

Sources say Issa and Fatima were sleeping when they were rudely awoken by the smoke from the blazing restaurant. “Fire brigade officers in Hannover discovered their bodies on the stair case while they were trying to escape the stench,” Daphine Lewis, who claimed to be a relative of Issa disclosed to this reporter in Berlin.

Daphne had knowledge of the incident through a telephone call she received from German criminal police officers, informing her about the sad event. According to her she was later asked to identify the deceased.

100 fire brigade officers put out the fire in order to prevent neighboring houses from blistering.

Issa and Fatima gave up the ghost at a hospital in Hanover, despite frantic efforts made by medical doctors with life-support machines to resuscitate their lives. 

According to Daphne, relatives of Issa in Sierra Leone received the tragic news with shock and disbelief. They expressed hope that investigations would be meticulously carried out to unearth the cause of the fire. “Families back home are frustrated and depressed,” she disclosed and added that Issa’s death is a great loss to both the family in Germany and Sierra Leone.

Observes viewed the incident as rather unfortunate as according to them, “Issa and Fatima left their country for greener pastures and never had the chance to go back home.”

Issa, Daphne noted had always lived in his own world since his arrival in Germany in 1996. “It is sad for a young man like him to die in such a painful way,” Daphne said.  

Police have handed over the deceased to the family in Germany, after a postmortem examination. He will be buried in Berlin tomorrow, Tuesday January 19.

Umaru S. Jah – Berlin

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