A major fire broke out in central Paris on Wednesday, causing the partial collapse of a structure and injuring at least 24 people, police said.
The blaze passed in the capital’s major 5th arrondissement, and was anteceded by a gas leak, the quarter’s mayor said on Twitter.
A number of French media, quoting original residers, said there had been a loud explosion before. French prosecutors, meanwhile, said the cause of the blast hadn’t been determined.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin asked on Twitter for people to stay down from the area to not hamper the massive deployment of firefighters and police.
A aggregate of 230 firefighters were at the point, and nine croakers, it said.
AFP filmland taken at the point show altitudinous dears, and bank jutting from the structure, positioned at Place Alphonse-Laveran, close to the Luxembourg auditoriums and conterminous to the Val de Grace church.
The area is at the edge of the Latin Quarter, a top tourism area in the French capital.
