2023-06-21 18:51:46
The building of a fashion school has collapsed during the afternoon of this Tuesday in the fifth district of Parisnear the Pantheon, because of a powerful gas explosion which has caused at least 16 people injured and a fire that has spread to several buildings.
The Police Headquarters has detailed that seven of the injured are in a state of “absolute emergency”, while the other nine are in moderate condition, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro.
The emergency has led the authorities, including the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to recommend that citizens avoid traveling to this area, where a large security and emergency device has been activated. In addition to police and military officers, more than 200 firefighters They are working to extinguish the flames.
The number two of the V district mayor’s office, Édouard Civel, specified that at the origin of everything there was a gas explosion in the Alfonse Laveran square and that there were several buildings on fire.
According to various eyewitnesses, who spoke to the media, the building that collapsed around 5:00 p.m. local time (3:00 p.m. GMT) is the Paris American Academy, a two-story design school.
Although there is still no official balance of possible victims, television images showed several people evacuated on stretchers. The BFMTV channel, without citing sources, indicated that there were four very serious people.
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