Death toll reaches three as Spanish woman dies from Paris gas explosion injuries
AFP - [email protected] •
12 Jan, 2019
Updated Sat 12 Jan 2019 15:45 CEST
A Spanish woman on holiday with her husband died in the Paris gas explosion on Saturday, a source with the Spanish foreign ministry said.
The woman "died a short while ago in hospital" after being caught in the blast, the source said.
The powerful explosion at a bakery in central Paris on Saturday morning also killed two firefighters and left dozens more injured, several critically.
Thirty-seven others were injured in the blast, 10 of them seriously, the prosecutor's office said, after initial reports erroneously said four people had been killed.
The explosion, which smashed windows in surrounding buildings and damaged a number of parked cars, occurred at around 9am at a bakery (boulangerie) on Rue de Trévise in the busy 9th arrondissement of the city.
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The woman "died a short while ago in hospital" after being caught in the blast, the source said.
The powerful explosion at a bakery in central Paris on Saturday morning also killed two firefighters and left dozens more injured, several critically.
Thirty-seven others were injured in the blast, 10 of them seriously, the prosecutor's office said, after initial reports erroneously said four people had been killed.
The explosion, which smashed windows in surrounding buildings and damaged a number of parked cars, occurred at around 9am at a bakery (boulangerie) on Rue de Trévise in the busy 9th arrondissement of the city.
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