Overview
- Authorities report the ground-floor explosion struck around 5:30 p.m. Monday in a four-storey building in Trévoux, north of Lyon.
- The public prosecutor says a woman who lived on the ground floor left the gas open in an apparent suicide and also died in the blast.
- Two children, aged three and five, were killed, with 13 people hospitalized and 53 others receiving treatment or psychological support.
- Vitinha, now playing for Genoa, publicly identified the children as his nephews and started an online fundraiser that had collected more than €36,000 by Thursday morning.
- Roughly 70 residents were affected by the heavily damaged building, and the gendarmerie is leading the ongoing investigation into the circumstances.