BREAKING: Nine bodies have been located after a fire broke out at a holiday home for disabled people in France. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
The bodies of nine people have been found and two others are feared dead after a fire at a holiday home for disabled people in eastern France, according to French media reports.Seventeen others were led to safety with one person taken to hospital after the fire broke out at 6.30am local time in the north-eastern town of Wintzenheim, local authorities said.
"We're almost certain of the death of the missing people," senior local official Christophe Marot said at the site of the fire, France 3 TV reported.Wintzenheim deputy mayor Daniel Leroy told BFMTV that three of the bodies were spotted by a drone over the building. The holiday home in Wintzenheim, which is close to the border with Germany, was rented by a charity that takes care of people with learning disabilities, France 3 said.
Local authorities in Haut-Rhin Préfecture said fire and rescue services deployed 76 firefighters, four fire engines and four ambulances and that it was"quickly brought under control despite the violent flames"., which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enablecookies or to allow those cookies just once.
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