Drama in Marseille.
A 5-year-old child died this Wednesday morning in a fire in a building located in the city of Rosiers, in the 14th arrondissement (north).
The fire started around 8 a.m., reports La Provence.
Other people were seriously injured.
Among them, a 2 month old baby, third degree burnt, and a 6 year old girl, shot in the face.
She was found unconscious by firefighters.
The mayor on site
According to the regional daily, a 25-year-old woman, a couple and another child were poisoned by smoke.
The fire is now extinguished, specifies La Provence.
It was triggered on the ninth floor of a building with a count of 10. The mayor of the city, Benoît Payan, went there, reports France 3.
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This morning, the #BMPM was alerted for a #fire apartment in Bellevue Saint Just (13th arrondissement), flames escaping from all the windows of the apartment on 2 facades.
No injuries are to be deplored.
This #intervention mobilized 20 machines and 60 MPs.
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- Marins-Pompiers de Marseille (@MarinsPompiers) January 4, 2022
The day before, another apartment had been destroyed by laziness in the neighboring 13th arrondissement.
He hadn't made a victim but the whole building had to be evacuated.
The previous week, the ground floor of a residential building had been completely destroyed by fire.
Four people were injured.