Nursing home fire near Paris kills three, injures several

Paris, Feb 02, (dpa/GNA) – Three people died and several were injured in an early Saturday morning fire at a nursing home near Paris, French media

reported.

They were taken to hospital with suspected smoke inhalation. All of the victims were residents of a nursing home in Bouffémont, around 25 kilometres

north of Paris. The remaining residents were evacuated, according to the reports.

Initial investigations suggest that the fire broke out in the laundry room on the third floor early in the morning, the television channel BFMTV

reported.

At the time of the fire, 75 residents were said to be in the facility. The cause was initially unclear. About a hundred firefighters were mobilized to

extinguish the blaze.
GNA