Seven children between the ages of 2 and 14 died with their mother in the night from Sunday to Monday in the fire at their house in Charly-sur-Marne, a hundred kilometers east of Paris, according to the gendarmerie and the fire brigade.
The badly burned father of this patchwork family was taken out of the house in the center of the city of 2,600 and taken to the hospital, added the gendarmerie and fire brigade.
The children, five girls and two boys, and their parents were sleeping on the 2nd floor of this townhouse when the fire broke out, the gendarmerie said. Firefighters were alerted at 00:52 (23:52 GMT) by a call from neighbors.
Four of the children came from a mother’s first union, the gendarmerie said.
According to the gendarmerie, the fire was extinguished early in the morning.
The latest similar tragedy dates back to the night of December 15-16, when six people, including four children, died in a fire at a seven-story condominium in a popular neighborhood of Vaulx-en-Velin. , near Lyon (southeast).