A traumatised dad has told how he rushed his young family to safety from a burning hotel after the room above theirs caught fire in a horror blaze that left three dead.
Manju Prasanna, 38, and his wife and four year old daughter were jolted awake by fire alarms at Perth's New County Hotel at 5am on January 2. Manju, wife Chamika Niroshani and daughter Tenera had arrived in Scotland from Sri Lanka just one day before, on New Year's Day, after Chamika was accepted onto a business course at the University of Dundee.
Manju told the Record: "I woke up to some outside the room shouting to 'get out' as the alarms went off. Then I heard a man shouting ‘My room is on fire’.
