WINTZENHEIM, France, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Eleven people died in a fire that tore through a holiday home for disabled people in eastern France in the early hours of Wednesday, officials said.
A neighbour, Nathalie, told BFM TV that she heard people scream and saw huge clouds of smoke from her window.
"Everything happened very quickly," an unnamed witness told France 3 TV.
[1/5]Dark clouds are seen over the remnants of a holiday home in eastern France near Colmar where disabled people were killed as fire broke out during their summer holidays in Wintzenheim, France, August 9, 2023.
Kielwasser told reporters it had likely been a low-level fire that had burnt for a while before growing bigger and tearing the house down.
Persons:
Nathalie Kielwasser, Elisabeth Borne, Borne, Nathalie, BFM, Tilman Blasshofer, Philippe Hauwiller, Kielwasser, Daniel Leroy, Elizabeth Pineau, Zhifan Liu, Sudip Kar, Gupta, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Blandine, Ingrid Melander, Angus MacSwan, Bernadette Baum, Toby Chopra, Jonathan Oatis
Organizations:
France, REUTERS, Thomson
Locations:
WINTZENHEIM, France, Wintzenheim, Strasbourg, Colmar, Paris