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22 hurt in France building blaze: fire service
TOULOUSE, France, Jan 10, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Twenty-two people were injured,
two seriously, when a fire swept through an apartment building in the
southwestern French city of Toulouse, the fire service told AFP on Thursday.
Part of the four-storey building collapsed and guests from a neighbouring
hotel were also evacuated, said fire lieutenant-colonel Sylvain Gergaud.
“The fire spread very quickly through the lift shift,” he said.
Two firemen were among the casualties.
The blaze had been brought under control by daybreak.
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