France
A father and his son died in the fire, and a child is missing
A house in a small village in the northwest of the country caught fire overnight from Monday to Tuesday. A 40-year-old man and a teenager have died.
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There were 8 people in the house when the fire broke out. (Archives)
AFP
A father and his 12-year-old son were killed in a fire at a house in Meuse (north-east) between Monday and Tuesday night. A three-year-old child is missing. The disaster completely destroyed the terraced house located in Rupt-en-Woëvre, a village of less than 400 inhabitants, said the duty officer of the Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) in Bar-le-Duc.
Eight people were in the house when the fire broke out due to an undetermined cause, a fire department official said. Five of them escaped the fire and were taken to a hospital in Verdun without serious injuries. “The trauma is mainly psychological,” the official said.
The bodies of a 40-year-old father and a 12-year-old child were recovered from the rubble. Another three-year-old child’s body was not found. The investigation into the origin of the disaster was entrusted to the departmental gendarmerie.
(AFP)