A six-year-old boy died Tuesday evening in a fire in an apartment in Noyon, northeast of Compiègne, AFP learned on Wednesday from the Compiègne gendarmerie and public prosecutor’s office.
The child’s mother, aged 46, managed to “escape the building by jumping from the first floor” where the apartment is located, Compiègne prosecutor Guillaume explained by email to AFP. Dupont. She had previously tried to save her son who remained in his room, he said.
Once out of this three-story building, the mother was taken care of by the firefighters, the commander of the Compiègne gendarmerie company Arthur Cholet told AFP. The mother and child were alone in the apartment at the time of the disaster, which occurred Tuesday after 9 p.m., he said.
An investigation, entrusted to the national gendarmerie, was opened. According to a source within the gendarmerie, the origin of the disaster would be “a priori” accidental.
This tragedy occurred barely a day after another fatal house fire in the Hauts-de-France region, which left three people dead, including two minors aged 9 and 15, in Wingles.
