No Georgian Victims Reported in France after Powerful Explosion
By Gvantsa Gabekhadze
Tuesday, January 15
No information about injuries of Georgian citizens has been received for the time by the Georgian Consulate in France as a result of a powerful explosion which took place on Saturday.
Two firefighters and a Spanish woman have been killed after a huge blast at a bakery in France's capital, Paris, BBC reports.
The Spanish woman, who was on holiday with her husband in Paris, died in hospital after the blast, and another Spanish national was also injured.
The emergency services were responding to a gas leak when "a dramatic explosion" occurred, said Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.
Forty-seven people were injured, 10 seriously, in the blast on rue de Trévise at around 09:00 (08:00 GMT).
It happened near the Paris Opera, a popular tourist area, and was felt several streets away, the foreign media reports.
