A building caught fire in Longlaville (Moselle) after explosions that targeted ATMs of a Credit Mutuel branch, said Wednesday, July 26 the mayor of the city.
Two explosions a few seconds apart around 3 am on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday woke up the inhabitants of the commune of 2500 inhabitants, told AFP the mayor Hamdi Toudma, confirming information from the daily Le Républicain lorrain. "Both ATMs flew. In the aftermath, the building caught fire," he said.
The judicial police is on site, but the mayor was not able Wednesday afternoon to decide on the possible loot carried away by the authors of the explosion.
Residents evacuated
A couple with a toddler, awakened by the explosion, was able to leave the building before the fire ravaged it.
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About thirty firefighters intervened with four or five trucks, "said Toudma. "It took them four or five hours to put out the fire." The town hall has launched an appeal for donations to help the family "who lost everything" in the fire of his apartment on the 2nd floor. Another family, living on the 3rd floor, was not at the scene during the explosions, but will also need to be rehoused.
The explosion occurred less than a hundred meters from the Luxembourg border, according to the mayor.