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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Parishioners openly wept Saturday as a Christmas Day electrical fire destroyed the 134-year old Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church in Georgetown, Guyana.
Father Lourduraj Arokiasamy said the blaze started when electrical flashing lights in the Nativity crib at the altar sparked the fire.
"It happens such a catastrophe. God has a message. God will still guide us because such things happen to us in our lives of the holy people and dedicated. people," he said.
He said none of the 65 parishioners, who were attending Christmas morning mass, was killed or injured in the blaze that destroyed the wooden church.
Parishioners openly wept and hugged each other, as they watched the wooden structure collapse.
The nearby Sacred Heart public school was also destroyed, along with records dating back to the 1930s.
Principal Yonnette Johnson wondered where the students and 45 teachers will go when classes resume January 3.
"We have lost everything and that includes records which, perhaps, are irreplaceable," Johnson told AFP.
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