This Friday, an explosion in an apartment building in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) seriously injured three people, according to the prefecture of the department and the firefighters.
The explosion, the origin of which has not been determined at this stage, "carried away a substantial part of a four-storey building" on rue André Karman, the prefecture said.
More than 200 firefighters mobilized
Help has been mobilized since 5:30 a.m. on this incident, which required the intervention of "more than 200 firefighters" from the Paris fire brigade and 71 machines, added this source from the prefecture, present on the spot.
AUBERVILLIERS - Explosion in a building last night.
The facade is gutted.
Several injured.
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A fire broke out and was quickly extinguished, said the firefighters who evacuated several dozen people housed in the twelve apartments of the building, as well as in adjacent buildings.
Already 22 wounded, research continues
The inhabitants, mostly of Pakistani origin, were all evacuated, said the prefecture.
According to this same source, the provisional balance sheet amounts to three people in absolute emergency and 19 people in relative emergency, whose days are not in danger.
The operations continued in the morning to search for possible victims in the rubble, with the help of a canine team, and to secure the building, according to the firefighters.
A perimeter was set up to secure the surroundings of the weakened building, and an architect went on site to determine the damage and the possible risk of collapse.
"A danger order will be taken so that the building is no longer occupied", indicated on Twitter Karine Franclet, the mayor of Aubervilliers, adding that a dojo has been opened to welcome the victims.
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