At least 10 people were killed in what appears to have been an arson attack on a residential building in Paris’s 16th district in the early hours of Tuesday morning. It took 200 firemen more than five hours to get the blaze under control. Firefighters and a police officer are seen near a building that caught fire in the 16th arrondissement in Paris. Photograph: Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFPThe eighth-floor, 1970s building is located in the rue Erlanger, near the Bois de Boulogne. The 16th arrondissement is one of the most high-end districts of Paris.

Source: The Irish Times February 05, 2019 08:03 UTC