{"id":17355,"date":"2023-06-21T23:06:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=17355"},"modified":"2023-06-21T23:06:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:06:28","slug":"huge-explosion-rocks-frances-capital-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/huge-explosion-rocks-frances-capital-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge explosion rocks France&#8217;s capital Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gas explosion took place in the fifth arrondissement of Paris, resulting in a fire affecting some buildings, the mayor of the arrondissement said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Paris police urged people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: There is a large fire in the 5th  arrondissement after a gas explosion in Paris, France. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eed22DvxeU\">pic.twitter.com\/eed22DvxeU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PM Breaking News (@PMBreakingNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMBreakingNews\/status\/1671539692435537921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At least seven people were critically injured in the explosion, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The blast ripped through a street in the busy Latin Quarter of central Paris, causing the facade of one building to collapse, blowing out windows and starting a huge blaze.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/bajwa-faces-heckling-by-afghan-citizen-during-france-vacation.html\">Bajwa faces heckling by Afghan citizen during France vacation<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the fire was locted on Rue Saint-Jacques in the 5th arrondissement close to the Jardin du Luxembourg and the Sorbonne University.<\/p>\n<p><i>BFM TV<\/i>\u00a0showed fire services sealing off the hire and trying to hose down a building, and Parisians posted images on Twitter of a huge plume of smoke that was visible across much of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Olivier Galzi told\u00a0<i>BFM TV<\/i>\u00a0that he had seen the facade of a nearby building &#8220;completely collapse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is chaos,&#8221; said Christopher Gaglione, who said he witnessed the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard a huge explosion,&#8221; said local bar employee Khal Ilsey. &#8220;And as I was leaving the restaurant, I saw flames at the end of Rue Saint-Jacques.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 firefighters were involved in the emergency response. TV images showed firefighters manning hoses and aiming jets of water at the blaze while a plume of thick black smoke billowed into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The blast occurred in the Rue Saint-Jacques in the 5th arrondissement of central Paris. The road leads from the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral to the Sorbonne University and the Val de Grace military hospital and is a few blocks from the popular Jardin du Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>The area is usually packed with tourists and foreign students in the early summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gas explosion took place in the fifth arrondissement of Paris, resulting in a fire affecting some buildings, the mayor of the arrondissement said on Twitter. Paris police urged people to avoid the area. Breaking: There is a large fire in the 5th arrondissement after a gas explosion in Paris, France. pic.twitter.com\/eed22DvxeU &mdash; PM Breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[7888,8048],"class_list":["post-17355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-gerald-darmanin","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}