Difficult, this Thursday afternoon, to find even auditory witnesses to the explosion that occurred a few minutes earlier in an apartment in Marcq-en-Baroeul. Many tenants were away from home. Like the victim’s immediate neighbor. “A resident of the residence called me to alert me because my vehicle parked right in front of the building was damaged. I was working. I came immediately and came across this»
That’s a spectacle of desolation with a broken window and a multitude of debris scattered like a puzzle on the road. Proof of the violence of the explosion, part of the window frame was propelled onto the sidewalk opposite and stuck in the roof of a house.
It was a little after 1:15 p.m. when the alert was given. A large emergency response immediately converged towards 40 rue du Fort, just opposite the Tennis League of Flanders, in an apartment in a residence which has fifteen.
The events occurred in an apartment located on the first floor of a residence belonging to SIA, and located just opposite the Tennis League of Flanders. The reasons for the explosion are still unknown, even if the accidental track seems favored at the moment; the investigation which is starting will have to clarify the causes of this accident.
The occupant of the apartment, a man aged around fifty, was very seriously burned on the face and transported to the burns department of the Lille University Hospital.
Rue du Fort was secured by the national and municipal police services. Many firefighters were mobilized, including a clearing team. It is also necessary to ensure that the structure of the building has not been damaged by the blast of the explosion.
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