Fire in bar kills 13 in northern French town

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Thirteen people have been killed and six injured in a fire at a bar in the centre of the city of Rouen in northern France, the French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve says.


"I told my friend let's get a spot on the terrace, I was about to sit when... All of a sudden, everything blew. We saw the smoke and we saw the flames, the chairs flew up, the window... We got scared, we stepped away."

"(I feel) Bad, because I could have died if my friend had not been there, and I have children. I had two friends who were downstairs, who are also mothers, with three children. Bad."