came In the case of a serious fire in a Paris apartment house are at least ten people were killed. The investigators of a criminal Background: A resident of the house has been arrested, said the Paris Prosecutor Remy Heitz on Tuesday morning. Around 30 people were in the fire, in a Paris 16. District injured.
The fire broke out in the night to Tuesday. Up in the morning hours, the firemen fought against the flames. By about 7.00 p.m. the fire was under control. The fire guards had to evacuate the eight-storey residential building completely. Also, several buildings in the neighborhood of the Rue Erlanger in the West of the city were evacuated. Around 200 firefighters were deployed.
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In the vicinity of the house, the police arrested in the morning hours, a woman who lived in the house. She was in police custody, Prosecutor Heitz. The fire had broken out after the first findings in the seventh or eighth floor of the house. Extinguishing the fire proved to be very difficult. According to the broadcaster, France Info, the building was built in the 1970s. Many residents shouted from their Windows to help, some fled to the roof. The fire Department had to bring several people with ladders to safety.
The fire was up in the morning hours.Photo: Christophe Ena, and Reuters
The mayor of the French capital, Anne Hidalgo, spoke to the relatives their condolences. “I would like to Express my deep sadness and my full support,” she wrote on Twitter. Hidalgo thanked him also for the firefighters that would have once risked their lives.
In January, four people were killed in gas explosion
in January, a gas explosion in a house in the middle of the centre of Paris, four people lost their lives, including two firefighters. To came the Explosion, then in a bakery, dozens of people suffered injuries. Adjacent houses were evacuated, some were about to collapse. (dpa)