Seven dead in the fire of a building in Paris

Seven people were killed and another seriously injured in the fire Monday evening of a building located southwest of Parisreported the firefighters, looking upward from the previous record of 4 deaths.

"The balance could be aggravated because the fire is still alive on the 7th and 8th floors" of this 8-storey block of the tributary district XVI of the French capital, said a spokesman for the firefighters, who said 2 the light wounded, among them three colleagues.

About 200 firefighters worked to extinguish the fire in this building built in the 1970s. and they had to rescue refugees on the rooftops, in addition to evacuating two neighboring buildings.

"Thirty people had to be evacuated by stairs"badured the spokesman.

The fire started at 01:00 (00:00 GMT) for reasons still unknown and at 05:00 (04:00 GMT) the work to extinguish it was continuing.

The disaster area is near the Trocadero, the Parc des Princes – the stadium Paris Saint Germain -, from the forest of Boulogne and Roland Garros tennis club.

On January 12, a gas explosion and the ensuing fire left four dead in the center of the French capital.