France: seven children and their mother die in the fire of their house

Seven children aged 2 to 14 died with their mother on the night of Sunday to Monday in the fire of their house in Charly-sur-Marne, a hundred kilometers east of Paris, it was reported. learned from the gendarmerie and the fire brigade.

The father of this blended family, seriously burned, was extracted from the house, located in the center of this town of 2,600 inhabitants, and transferred to hospital, added the gendarmerie and firefighters.

The children, five girls and two boys, and their parents were sleeping on the 2nd floor of this townhouse when the fire broke out, the gendarmerie said. The firefighters were notified at 00:52 (23:52 GMT) by the call of neighbors.

Four of the children were from a first union of the mother, said the gendarmerie.

The fire was extinguished in the early morning, according to the gendarmerie.

The last similar tragedy dates back to the night of December 15 to 16, with the death of six people, including four children, in the fire of a seven-storey condominium located in a popular district undergoing urban renewal in Vaulx-en-Velin. , near Lyon (south-east).

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