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Shock deepens in France as new tenement fire kills 7
The Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2005
PARIS A blaze in a run-down building housing African immigrants in Paris, the second in four days and the third since April, killed seven people overnight, officials said Tuesday, deepening a sense of shock in France over the plight of the country's impoverished noncitizens.
Officials said four children and three adults died after the blaze broke out in the stairwell of the dilapidated five-story tenement in which they were squatting. The fire occurred in the Marais, a historic central district, late Monday evening.
One of the children received fatal injuries in jumping from a fourth-floor window, firefighters said.
Just days ago, a deadly blaze killed 17 Africans in Paris. Four months earlier, 24 people died in a similar fire at a budget hotel where African immigrants lived, focusing new attention on the plight of Paris's poor.
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Other officials also expressed grief at the latest blaze, which came as the government was taking an increasingly hard line against illegal immigration. None of the people living at the tenement in the Marais had documents allowing them to stay legally in France.
More here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/30/news/paris.php
The Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2005
PARIS A blaze in a run-down building housing African immigrants in Paris, the second in four days and the third since April, killed seven people overnight, officials said Tuesday, deepening a sense of shock in France over the plight of the country's impoverished noncitizens.
Officials said four children and three adults died after the blaze broke out in the stairwell of the dilapidated five-story tenement in which they were squatting. The fire occurred in the Marais, a historic central district, late Monday evening.
One of the children received fatal injuries in jumping from a fourth-floor window, firefighters said.
Just days ago, a deadly blaze killed 17 Africans in Paris. Four months earlier, 24 people died in a similar fire at a budget hotel where African immigrants lived, focusing new attention on the plight of Paris's poor.
.....
Other officials also expressed grief at the latest blaze, which came as the government was taking an increasingly hard line against illegal immigration. None of the people living at the tenement in the Marais had documents allowing them to stay legally in France.
More here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/30/news/paris.php