22 hurt in France building blaze: Fire service

| Jan 10, 2019, 13:33 IST
TOULOUSE, FRANCE: Twenty-two people were injured, two seriously, when a fire swept through an apartment building in the southwestern French city of Toulouse, the fire service told AFP on Thursday.


Part of the four-storey building collapsed and guests from a neighbouring hotel were also evacuated, said fire lieutenant-colonel Sylvain Gergaud.


"The fire spread very quickly through the lift shift," he said.


Two firemen were among the casualties.


The blaze had been brought under control by daybreak.
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