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Anonymous ID: 4b566e June 21, 2023, 11:22 a.m. No.19046717   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/21/gas-explosion-in-paris-has-set-buildings-on-fire-says-local-official

At least 25 injured after gas explosion sparks blaze in Paris

Police tell people to avoid Val-de-Grâce area after several buildings catch fire in fifth arrondissement

At least 25 people have been injured, four of whom are in a critical condition, after a gas explosion sparked a blaze in buildings in the Latin Quarter of Paris.

The gas explosion happened in the fifth arrondissement at about 5pm on Wednesday and resulted in several buildings catching fire, local officials said.

Police said many of the injured were hit by the force of the blast and by debris. Rescue workers were looking for two people in the rubble on Wednesday night.

Police told people to avoid the Val-de-Grâce area, near the Pantheon and Luxembourg Gardens, after the facade of a building collapsed and the fire appeared to have spread to neighbouring buildings.

Laurent Nuñez, the Paris police chief, said the explosion happened at 277 rue Saint-Jacques inside a building that included the Paris American academy, a bilingual school of fashion and design.

Local people described one powerful explosion and a smaller one. One man told France Info public radio: “It was shocking. It’s a disaster.”