A mother and her three-year-old son died on Wednesday in a fire that broke out in a building in Montereau-Fault-Yonne (Seine-et-Marne) and left ten people slightly injured.
The mother and her son died on the spot, despite the intervention of rescue workers who tried to revive them, explained the firemen. The ten others more lightly injured were "poisoned by smoke," they added.
Difficult intervention, dozens of rescues
The fire broke out for an undetermined reason around 6.30 p.m. in an apartment, on the 1st floor of a 7-storey building located in the city of Surville, said the prefecture of Seine-et-Marne and the firefighters. The fire, which was brought under control Wednesday evening, spread "very quickly" to the other floors, detailed the firemen.
When they arrived, "there was a lot of smoke in the common areas and the apartments" and the intervention was "difficult" with "several dozen rescues" which had to be carried out through the windows, added the firemen.
On Wednesday, another fire occurred in the Paris region, in a building in Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), leaving ten injured, including a two-year-old child who was helicoptered to hospital in a state " very serious ".
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