Three killed in Paris fire
Three people died and another was seriously injured in a fire that broke out in a building in central Paris in the early hours of Saturday, fire services said.
The two other fatalities included a "young man who was trying to get out of his house and was suffocated by the smoke and another person who faced a similar situation," Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo told a news conference. The blaze was reported at around 5:00 am and it took nearly four hours for 200 firefighters to bring it under control, according to fire captain Florian Lointier.The cause of the fire is still unknown. Prosecutors have opened an investigation.
"We were asleep and at around 5:00 am, I smelt smoke. I opened the window and a fire truck was already there," said one witness, Jerome Cariati, who lives in an adjacent street.
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