Five People Killed in Building Fire in Northeast France

Reuters
By Reuters
February 27, 2020France
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Five People Killed in Building Fire in Northeast France
Firefighters are seen near a building that caught fire on Feb. 5, 2019. (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images)

PARIS—Five people died on Thursday after a fire broke out in a building in Strasbourg in northeastern France, local firefighters said.

Firefighters said in a statement that seven people have also been taken into emergency care.

The fire is under control, they said.

By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Matthieu Protard