The Evreux prosecutor’s office announced on Monday that a third victim, aged 13, was still between life and death after announcing his death. This is the big sister of the two children already found dead. Pulled out of the blaze, the teenager had been evacuated “in absolute urgency”.
The 13-year-old girl hospitalized in “absolute emergency” after the fire which killed two children on Saturday in a farmhouse in Selles in the Eure, was still between life and death on Monday, rectified the Evreux prosecution after announcing his death. The vital prognosis of the young girl, sister of two children aged 7 and 11 who died on Saturday, “is still engaged” but she is not dead, Christophe Salort, deputy public prosecutor, told an AFP correspondent. in Evreux.
Evacuated in “absolute emergency”
A few hours earlier, the magistrate had initially announced that the young girl, hospitalized in Paris, had succumbed to her injuries, based on erroneous information given by the gendarmes, he then explained. The young teenager, extricated from the blaze in cardio-respiratory arrest on Saturday, had been evacuated “in absolute urgency” by helicopter to the Trousseau hospital in Paris.
In total, five adults and five children, four generations of the same family reunited for Christmas, were in this second home near Pont-Audemer. The people present in the house on the night of the events came from Yvelines, Paris (16th), Saône-et-Loire and Switzerland, said Christophe Salort.
“A judicial expert has been seized. Forensic expertise operations are underway to determine the origin of the fire which remains at this undetermined time,” added the magistrate. The firefighters were alerted to the incident around 3:45 a.m. and arrived quickly on the scene, but the fire was already very advanced and the Norman farmhouse was engulfed in flames.