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Fire at Retirement Home Near Paris Leaves 3 Dead, 8 Injured

A painter wraps up his working tools as it rains in Montmartre in Paris, on January 31, 2025. (Photo by Julie SEBADELHA / AFP)
A painter wraps up his working tools as it rains in Montmartre in Paris, on January 31, 2025. (Photo by Julie SEBADELHA / AFP)
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Fire at Retirement Home Near Paris Leaves 3 Dead, 8 Injured

A painter wraps up his working tools as it rains in Montmartre in Paris, on January 31, 2025. (Photo by Julie SEBADELHA / AFP)
A painter wraps up his working tools as it rains in Montmartre in Paris, on January 31, 2025. (Photo by Julie SEBADELHA / AFP)

At least three people have been killed in a fire that broke out in a retirement home near Paris on Saturday, according to the town mayor.
A further eight people were injured in the blaze at the residence located in the town of Bouffémont.
"This is a serious event for our town," Mayor Michel Lacoux said. "It seems to have been an accident."
Lacoux said the fire was under control at the residence, which was home to 75 elderly residents.
Speaking to BFM TV, he said the fire is thought to have started in a laundry room and spread to part of the third floor of the building.
Commandant Adrien Ponin-Sinapayen, spokesman for France’s civil defense agency, said the fire was extinguished after 140 firefighters were deployed to the scene.

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Russia's Medvedev Says Ukraine's Forces in Kursk are Almost Surrounded

Ukrainian serviceman, Sudzha, Russia, August 16, 2024. REUTERS/Yan Dobronosov
Ukrainian serviceman, Sudzha, Russia, August 16, 2024. REUTERS/Yan Dobronosov
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Russia's Medvedev Says Ukraine's Forces in Kursk are Almost Surrounded

Ukrainian serviceman, Sudzha, Russia, August 16, 2024. REUTERS/Yan Dobronosov
Ukrainian serviceman, Sudzha, Russia, August 16, 2024. REUTERS/Yan Dobronosov

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday that recent advances by Russian forces against Ukraine in the Kursk region meant that Kyiv's soldiers were almost surrounded.

In a post on Telegram about the fighting in Kursk, Medvedev wrote: "The lid of the smoking cauldron is almost closed. The offensive continues."

According to Reuters, Russian special forces crept miles through a major gas pipeline near the town of Sudzha in an attempt to surprise Ukrainian forces as part of a major offensive to eject Ukrainian soldiers from the western Russian region of Kursk, pro-Russian war bloggers said.
Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers seized about 1,300 square km of Russia's Kursk region in August last year in what Kyiv said was an attempt to gain a bargaining chip in future negotiations and to force Russia to shift forces from eastern Ukraine.
Russia has been pressing the attack with some success in recent days, with open source maps on Friday showing Kyiv's contingent in Kursk nearly surrounded after rapid Russian advances.
Russian advances in 2024 and US President Donald Trump's upending of US policy on Ukraine and Russia have caused fears among European leaders that Ukraine will lose the war and that Trump is turning his back on Europe.
The United States paused military aid and the sharing of intelligence with Ukraine this month after a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on February 28 descended into acrimony in front of the world's media.
In its daily update on the situation in Kursk, Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces had retaken the village of Lebedevka, as well as seizing Novenke, a hamlet across the border in Ukraine's neighbouring Sumy region.
Yuri Podolyaka, a Ukrainian-born, pro-Russian military blogger, said Russian special forces had walked miles along the inside of the major gas pipeline and some had spent several days in the pipe before surprising Ukrainian forces from the rear near Sudzha.
Sudzha is the home of major gas transfer and measuring stations on a pipeline that used to carry Russian natural gas into the Ukrainian gas transmission system for onward transportation to Europe.