A 50-year-old died in the fire of an apartment in the center of Strasbourg and an 88-year-old woman was hospitalized in "
absolute emergency
", the Bas-Rhin firefighters said on Sunday.
The fire, whose origin has not been specified, broke out at the end of the afternoon in a building in the Krutenau district.
“
Two people were found in cardio-respiratory arrest, a 53-year-old man was declared dead and an 88-year-old woman was taken to hospital after resuscitation” in “
absolute
emergency
”, the firefighters said in a press release. .
"
A dozen people were confined during the operations and five people were evacuated
," they said.
According to the regional daily
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(DNA), the two victims were in an apartment on the fourth and top floor of the building.