Explosion in Paris injures more than 20 people - Total News (2024)

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The explosion on Wednesday, potentially caused by a gas leak, has left four people in life-threatening condition and 33 others injured.

Explosion destroys building Paris American Academy, leaves 37 injured. There were no vehicles in the street, and only a water hose was intermittently activated by the fire brigade to spray the ruins of the destroyed building. The shops in the street were open and people were moving around.

Laurent Nuñez, the Paris police chief, said the explosion happened at 277 Rue Saint-Jacques inside a building that included the Paris American academy, a bilingual school of fashion and design.

These unrests frequently originated from societal challenges such as unemployment, poverty, discrimination, and strained relations between minority communities and law enforcement.

Referring to himself as an “artist-demolitionist,” Haussmann rebuilt Paris in the 1850s and 1860s, tearing open what had been a dark maze of a city and replacing it with light, uniform modernity. He tore down nineteen thousand buildings, including thousands of homes constructed in the medieval era.

Some thought it was a bomb, others a plane that had just crashed. A plume of black smoke rose into the Paris sky. It was 4.55 pm in the 5^th arrondissem*nt on Wednesday, June 21, when an explosion had just happened on rue Saint-Jacques. Glass shards littered the ground for several hundred meters around the site.

Around 2:30 am on Monday, 26 June 1978, the historic Palace of Versailles near Paris, France, was bombed by Breton nationalists belonging to the Breton Liberation Front (FLB). The powerful explosion occurred on the ground floor of the left wing of the palace and caused damage within an 80 meter radius.

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Abaaoud was the suspected mastermind behind the Paris attacks and several others, and French authorities suspected he was planning a new attack near Paris when he was killed. Abaaoud was one of Europe's most wanted men before the Nov.

The blast occurred on Wednesday afternoon in the city's 5^th arrondissem*nt, close to the Luxembourg Gardens and at the edge of the Latin Quarter, a top tourism area in the French capital.

Is Paris still walled? ›

Only a few sections of the Wall of the Farmers-General (pavilions of Claude Nicolas Ledoux) and the Wall of Philippe Auguste survive to the present day.

The blast took place in a building that housed a design school and the Catholic education system headquarters in Rue Saint-Jacques, in the fifth arrondissem*nt of the French capital.

The main causes of air pollution in Paris are, according to Airparif, a network that monitors the quality of the air in the city, transportation, as well as the large variety of industries and the heating of homes and businesses throughout the year.

The explosion happened near the historic Val de Grace military hospital, in one of the most upscale neighborhoods of the French capital.