This is the third victim of this fire which occurred on Christmas Eve in a house in the Eure.
The fire which caused the death of two children aged 7 and 11 on Saturday in a house in Selles (Eure) claimed a third victim, their 13-year-old sister who died on Tuesday, the Evreux prosecution said.
“The death of the third victim, aged 13, was found last night (Tuesday). The investigation continues with the hearings of family members and occupants of the accommodation,” said Wednesday Christophe Salort, deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Evreux.
The young teenager, extricated from the blaze in cardio-respiratory arrest on Saturday, had been evacuated “in absolute urgency” by helicopter to a Parisian hospital.
Four generations under the same roof
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 century), Saône-et-Loire and Switzerland, said Christophe Salort.
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.
