The fire which caused the death of two children aged 7 and 11 on Saturday in a house in Selles (Eure) claimed a third victim, their 13-year-old sister who died on Tuesday, the Evreux prosecution said.
“The death of the third victim, aged 13, was confirmed last night [Tuesday].
The investigation is continuing with the hearings of family members and occupants of the accommodation, ”said Christophe Salort, deputy public prosecutor of Évreux, on Wednesday.
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The young teenager, extricated from the blaze in cardiorespiratory arrest on Saturday, had been evacuated "in absolute urgency" by helicopter to a Parisian hospital.
In total, five adults and five children, four generations of the same family reunited for Christmas, were in this second home near Pont-Audemer.
The people present in the house on the night of the events came from Yvelines, Paris (16th century), Saône-et-Loire and Switzerland, said the magistrate.
The firefighters were alerted to the incident around 3:45 a.m. and arrived quickly on the scene, but the fire was already very advanced and the Norman farmhouse was engulfed in flames.
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