“We heard a faint explosion then the police asked us to come down
,” explains an old lady sitting on a chair in rue de Charonne. This Sunday evening around 8 p.m., an explosion took place at number 146 of this street in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, on the seventh floor of an apartment building which has eight floors. A fire then broke out in one apartment before spreading to two others. At 8:30 p.m., police and the Paris fire brigade (BSPP) arrived on site. Seventeen engines were used to bring the fire under control.
The police tried to bring the fire under control around 9:30 p.m. this Sunday. Thibaut Déléaz, Le Figaro
In the evening, the BSPP indicated that the fire was in the process of being extinguished. Three people were killed, according to a police source in Le
Figaro
. According to several residents, one of them, a man according to testimonies, died after trying to escape from his home through the window.
“Someone on the 6th floor tried to catch him but he fell,”
two residents told our journalist present on site.
More information to follow...