Two people died in the fire of a house in Etretat (Seine-Maritime) on the night of Thursday to Friday, we learned from the firefighters and the parquet floor of Le Havre.
The bodies found are "
a priori
" those "
of a father in his fifties and his 14-year-old minor daughter
" according to the public prosecutor of Le Havre Bruno Dieudonné, questioned by AFP, who specified that the causes of the fire were "
not known as it stands
".
"
It seems that these houses are often heated by wood stoves which leaves room for the hypothesis of a malfunction of a heating device
", according to the same source.
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An investigation has been opened to find the causes of death, entrusted to the research brigade of the Fécamp gendarmerie company, and “
autopsies will be carried out both to determine the exact causes of death but also to identify the victims. with certainty given the very degraded state of the bodies
,” said Bruno Dieudonné.
Called at “
4:30 a.m. for a fire in a two-storey house
”, the firefighters found a house on the spot “
completely ablaze
” according to the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service of Seine-Maritime.
About thirty firefighters were engaged on this fire, extinguished in the early morning.