A tragedy occurred Tuesday evening in Noyon, in Oise. A six-year-old boy died in an apartment fire, the gendarmerie reports.
The child’s mother, aged 46, escaped the flames by jumping from the first floor of her apartment located in a “small four-story building”, and was taken care of by the firefighters, said Arthur Cholet, commander of the Compiègne gendarmerie company. The mother and child were alone in the apartment at the time of the disaster, which occurred Tuesday after 9 p.m., he said.
“The first investigations are intended to determine the cause of the fire, the origin unknown at this stage, and the consequences of which led to the death of the child, despite all the care provided by the SMUR and the firefighters present on site. place”, indicates Guillaume Dupont, the public prosecutor of Compiègne.
-A gendarmerie investigation under the authority of the Compiègne public prosecutor’s office “is underway” to determine the circumstances of the fire and the child’s death. According to another source within the gendarmerie, the origin of the incident was “a priori” accidental.