Fire in town near Strasbourg broke out at 6.30am and quickly ravaged the building, officials said
Firefighters inspect a building after a fire at a holiday home for disabled people in Wintzenheim, eastern France, on Wednesday. Photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty ImagesEleven people died after a fire tore through a holiday home for disabled people in eastern France early on Wednesday, officials said.
The blaze broke out before 6.30am, as the holiday-goers with disabilities and their carers were still asleep in the two-storey building in the town of Wintzenheim, about 70km south of Strasbourg. “We think we have located the 11 bodies,” a firefighter told French prime minister Elisabeth Borne as she visited the site of the incident. Eight bodies have been retrieved and three more were thought to have been located under the rubble.
The holiday home was rented for the summer by two charities that take care of people with learning disabilities, local media said. Twenty-eight people were staying there, 17 of whom managed to escape the fire.
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