France: 13 dead in a fire in a bar in Rouen
In the lighted candles of a birthday cake give the French authorities the fire that broke out in a bar in Rouen, thereby killed at least 13 people and injuring another six.
The victims are aged 18-25 years and according to initial indications died from the fumes. The tragedy occurred around midnight in the bar basement, apparently when the roof of the hall caught fire from the candles of a cake.
"The fire brigade was called at 00.20 (local time) to go to Cuba Libre bar located on the boulevard Jacques Cartier. They arrived very quickly," said the secretary general of the prefecture of Seine-Maritime, Ivan Korntie.
The judicial authorities have launched an investigation to determine the cause of the fire, said the interior ministry. According to the police of Rouen, young people were invited to a birthday party died of asphyxiation from the smoke, when fire took the roof. "No explosion, candles used in the celebration caught fire as the ceiling was made of polystyrene, releasing gases poisoned the victims" said the police.
The deputy public prosecutor of Rouen Laurent lampante, who spoke in Paris-Normandie newspaper underlined that the tragedy caused by "accident".
Early in the morning, the bar remained blocked and the police had placed metal barriers in front of the facade. A photo reporter of the French News Agency reported that all the windows were broken and blinds were burned.
Before about two weeks Rouen rocked by another tragedy, the murder of the priest of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvre two jihadists.
This is the worst accident of this kind in France in the last decade. On September 4, 2005, a building in L'Ai-les-Pink, on the outskirts of Paris, engulfed in flames resulting in the death of 18 people. On November 1, 1970, a fire at a discotheque in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, in eastern France, killed 146 people, mostly young.
In the lighted candles of a birthday cake give the French authorities the fire that broke out in a bar in Rouen, thereby killed at least 13 people and injuring another six.
The victims are aged 18-25 years and according to initial indications died from the fumes. The tragedy occurred around midnight in the bar basement, apparently when the roof of the hall caught fire from the candles of a cake.
"The fire brigade was called at 00.20 (local time) to go to Cuba Libre bar located on the boulevard Jacques Cartier. They arrived very quickly," said the secretary general of the prefecture of Seine-Maritime, Ivan Korntie.
The judicial authorities have launched an investigation to determine the cause of the fire, said the interior ministry. According to the police of Rouen, young people were invited to a birthday party died of asphyxiation from the smoke, when fire took the roof. "No explosion, candles used in the celebration caught fire as the ceiling was made of polystyrene, releasing gases poisoned the victims" said the police.
The deputy public prosecutor of Rouen Laurent lampante, who spoke in Paris-Normandie newspaper underlined that the tragedy caused by "accident".
Early in the morning, the bar remained blocked and the police had placed metal barriers in front of the facade. A photo reporter of the French News Agency reported that all the windows were broken and blinds were burned.
Before about two weeks Rouen rocked by another tragedy, the murder of the priest of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvre two jihadists.
This is the worst accident of this kind in France in the last decade. On September 4, 2005, a building in L'Ai-les-Pink, on the outskirts of Paris, engulfed in flames resulting in the death of 18 people. On November 1, 1970, a fire at a discotheque in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, in eastern France, killed 146 people, mostly young.
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