Five dead in a fire at a building in Saint-Denis – Le Figaro

The cause of the fire, which also made two serious injuries is unknown. The relatively new four-storey building, located in the center of Saint-Denis, was not rated unhealthy.

At least five people were killed and two others seriously injured in a fire at a building Monday night in Saint-Denis, near Paris. There are also nine minor injuries, including three firefighters. The five victims were “found in the rubble of the building” and as they “strongly impacted by the fire,” it is “impossible in the state to identify the victims,” ​​said the night a spokesman for the firefighters. The search continued in the night, in the rubble, with twenty firefighters on site.

A first assessment in the early evening was reported 12 wounded, including two serious, two people who jumped out the window from the upper floors of the building. But their prognosis was not engaged, according to a statement in the evening by the Paris fire brigade and the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis. “There has been a collapse of the fourth floor on the third and the stairwell is still fragile,” had explained a spokesman for the firefighters. Around 22:30, the fire, which broke out around 19:30, was under control.

“We do not know where the fire is gone,” said the evening Deputy Mayor for Housing, Stephen Few, who visited the site, indicating that this relatively new building four storey hotel located in the center of Saint-Denis, was “not rated unhealthy.”