'Paris is disfigured': Tears and shock as Notre-Dame burnsAnxious passers-by watched the landmark cathedral burn. More gasps came a few seconds later when the rest of the spire collapsed, caught on the cameras of thousands of mobile phones. "Now we need to know how this happened -- with everything that's going on in the world, why Notre-Dame? They had come to Paris specifically to see Notre-Dame, part of a world tour over years to see historic sites. "It's devastating," said Nathalie Cadwallader, 42, who had come to Paris two days earlier with her husband and two children for a weeklong visit.

Source: Standard Digital April 15, 2019 19:30 UTC