Death toll in Paris hotel fire hits 22
Firefighters searching through the debris of a hotel fire in Paris found the body of a small child today, raising the death toll to 22.
The fire on Friday morning at the six-story Paris Opera hotel, housing mostly needy people placed there by social services, was the worst in recent memory in the French capital. The nationalities of the dead – half of which are believed to be children – have not been revealed.
