Many of those on the upper floor could not react fast enough to save their lives. Read more at straitstimes.com.
being used by a group of adults with learning disabilities, the officials said.
“Those on the ground floor are all alive and upstairs five people managed to escape. The eleven others died,” regional deputy prosecutor Nathalie Kielwasser said at the scene. “The fire was quickly brought under control despite the intensity of the flames,” the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin region said in a statement.Those staying at the centre were part of a group of adults with learning difficulties, some of whom who had come to the picturesque and hilly region from the nearby city of Nancy, and elsewhere in northeast France, for the holidays.
Local resident Solange Halter, 61, told AFP “we were woken up by our son very early. When we went outside, we saw a huge plume of smoke”.‘Extremely shocked’ French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne expressed her “sadness” over the “appalling” disaster. PHOTO: REUTERS“She is extremely shocked, she is the one who set off the alert and heard the victims calling for help,” she added.
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