The tragedy occurred this Monday at midday in Mulhouse. A violent fire ravaged several apartments in a small four-storey building on rue Drouot, in the northeast of the city. “The fire broke out on the 1st floor, pierced through to the 2nd floor and also spread into the stairwell,” said the Haut-Rhin prefecture in a press release.
Despite the rapid and provided intervention of firefighters and SAMU, a 5-year-old child died as a result of the fire. A seven-year-old child and a 32-year-old woman are in absolute emergency and seven other people are in relative emergency. They were transported to the hospital group of the Mulhouse and South Alsace region (GHRMSA).
“At this stage, specifies the press release, the circumstances at the origin of the fire are not known and an investigation is in progress to determine them with precision”.