JUST IN: At least four people were hurt after a large fire broke out in central Paris following a suspected explosion, according to CNN affiliate
Hundreds of firefighters have been deployed to the scene, it said. In a tweet posted shortly after 5 p.m. local time , police in Paris asked people to avoid the area near Rue Saint Jacques, in the city’s 5th arrondissement. Nine others have sustained noncritical injuries, according to BFMTV. One woman, Anne, told a CNN producer at the scene that she was inside her flat, around 500m from the site, when the explosion happened.
“It felt like an earthquake, the windows banged against each other,” she said. Another woman who didn’t want to give her name and lives in a neighboring avenue told CNN that her doors slammed shut from the explosion. Locals have been stopped from returning to their homes in surrounding streets. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, currently in Nancy in eastern France for a conference, will cut short his trip and return to Paris, the interior ministry told media.
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