PARIS: A blast ripped through a street in the busy Latin Quarter of central Paris on Wednesday (Jun 21), causing the facade of a design school popular with foreign students to collapse, blowing out windows and starting a huge blaze.
At least 16 people were injured, including seven who are in a critical condition, police said.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said it was too early to say what caused the blast.
But the local deputy mayor, Edouard Civel, referred to a gas explosion in a Twitter post and witnesses told BFM TV there had been a strong smell of gas moments before the blast.
Source: CNA
