PICTURES – According to the latest report available, 17 people were injured, including a firefighter, seriously wounded in the blast, but the prognosis is not engaged. The images are impressive.
A violent gas explosion in an apartment building in the street Bérite in the sixth arrondissement of Paris s’ occurred Friday at midday, leaving 17 injured, one serious. She ripped open a portion of the upper floors and the building’s roof, while a fire off a thick black smoke.
A firefighter was seriously injured in the blast, which occurred after a fire, but his prognosis was not engaged, said an official of firefighters. Sixteen other people, including 10 firefighters, were more lightly injured, he said.
A strong smell of burning hung in the exclusive area of the left bank of the capital, a theater ballet ambulances, fire engines and civil security.
“I was at home, the windows trembled into my building, two blocks away. And after a volute gray smoke and the smell of burnt … By these times, it is believed an attack was “testified one resident, Sylvie Guillaumin 51 years. Gas was cut off in the area, she said.
Since the jihadist attacks of November 13 (130 dead and hundreds injured), the worst MAY HAVE never known the France , Paris lives in fear of further attacks.
a gastronomic school nearby the blast site were evacuated. “People were scared, they believed that it was a bomb,” said Samir, an employee in the school, whose windows were broken, according to another witness.
“We could said an earthquake. The whole building was shaken. We quickly figured gas, because of school, but in fact it was in a house, “said Belmina, 27, who made the plunge in the canteen of the school.
(With AFP)
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