The dwelling partially blown up. A couple of octogenarians died on Sunday morning in the explosion followed by the fire in their house in Vézelin-sur-Loire (Loire), we learned from the gendarmerie. The firefighters arrived at the square around 7:00 a.m.
After managing to extinguish the fire, the firefighters found two charred bodies, not yet identifiable.
The privileged accidental explosion hypothesis
However, they should probably be the two occupants in their eighties of the house located in this town of 800 inhabitants, south of Roanne. Criminal identification technicians from the gendarmerie were sent to the scene. They should be joined by an expert appointed by the Roanne prosecutor's office.
The hypothesis of the accidental explosion of a gas cylinder is currently favored.
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