17 injured as huge gas explosion hits residential building in central Paris

Armenpress

21:13, 1 April, 2016

YEREVAN, APRIL 1, ARMENPRESS. At least 17 people have been injured in a huge gas explosion, which rocked a residential building in central Paris; French media cited firefighters as saying. Local residents have reportedly been evacuated.

Police sources confirmed to AFP it was a gas explosion,” Armenpress” reports citing RT website.

A firefighter, blown by the blast, was seriously injured, the firefighters told Liberation. Sixteen other people, including 10 firefighters, were slightly injured, he added.

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