An explosion followed by a fire in an eight-storey residential building resulted in at least three fatalities on Sunday, as reported by a French newspaper.
Le Parisien detailed that the explosion occurred before the ignition of a fire in a structure situated in Paris’s 11th arrondissement. The blaze originated on the building’s seventh floor.
After the event, numerous ambulances and fire trucks were dispatched to the scene to undertake rescue operations.
Luc Lebon, the deputy mayor of the 11th arrondissement, mentioned to Le Parisien that the cause of the explosion remains unclear to neighbours, especially since the building is not supplied with gas.
Nonetheless, the possibility of a gas-related cause has not been dismissed by authorities.
A public prosecutor conveyed to Le Parisien that an investigation into the incident had been initiated, with the 2nd judicial police district of the city tasked with determining the origins of both the explosion and the fire.
The incident marks the third in just a few years that an explosion inside a structure has struck the capital, killing multiple people.
In June 2023, 277 rue Saint-Jacques was blown up, as a result of which three people lost their lives. On 12 January 2019, an explosion hit Rue de Trevise, in which four people died.
