Three people died and another was seriously injured in a fire that broke out in a building in central Paris in the early hours of Saturday, fire services said. One of the victims died after falling from the six-storey block of flats situated in the 11th district, which also housed a restaurant and a hammam, a spokesman for the fire services said. The building was being renovated and was encased in scaffolding. It was not immediately clear the dead woman had jumped out or slipped from a scaffolding while trying to escape the flames.
The two other fatalities included a "young man who was trying to get out of his house and was suffocated by the smoke and another person who faced a similar situation," Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo told a news conference.