PARIS — The Latest on a Paris apartment building fire (all times local):12:50 p.m.A judicial official says that a suspect detained near a deadly Paris fire was drunk when she was arrested. He said the 40-year-old female resident of the burned-out residence in rue Erlanger, in western Paris, was found to be drunk when apprehended on the street before dawn. The French prosecutor’s office says the death toll in a suspected arson attack on a Paris residential building has risen to 10. He said about 50 people were safely rescued from the building in western Paris. He told The Associated Press that the fire broke out early Tuesday in an eight-story apartment building on Rue Erlanger in the 16th arrondissement of western Paris.

Source: National Post February 05, 2019 06:03 UTC