3 killed in fire in Paris suburb

 

by IANS |

Paris, Aug 20 (IANS) Three people were killed while 19 others, including 4 firefighters, injured in a fire that broke out in an apartment building in the northern suburb of Paris.


"This (Saturday) morning around 9:30 a.m., a violent fire broke out in Rue de la Commune de Paris in Ile-Saint-Denis from the 9th floor to the 12th floor of a residential building," the Prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis said.


Speaking to local media, Jacques Paris, deputy mayor of Ile-Saint-Denis, said that the building already suffered a fire in 2021 in the stairwell, but no one was injured, Xinhua news agency reported.

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