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		</div><p>At least 16 people have been injured after an explosion at a building in Paris’ Left Bank, police said.</p>
<p>The blast ignited a fire that sent smoke soaring over monuments in the French capital and prompted the evacuation of surrounding buildings.</p>
<p>The cause of the blast was not immediately known.</p>
<p>The facade of a building in the 5th arrondissement, or district, collapsed and emergency services were working to determine if anyone was still inside, police added.</p>
<p>The explosion happened near the historic Val de Grace military hospital.</p>
<p>Paris police chief Laurent Nunez told reporters there were 16 people injured, including seven in an “emergency condition”.</p>
<p>The authorities did not specify whether the injured were in a life-threatening condition.</p>
<p>The fire was contained but not extinguished, Mr Nunez said.</p>
<p>Florence Berthout, mayor of the district, said “the explosion was extremely violent”, describing pieces of glass still falling from buildings.</p>
<p>A police official described several injuries, some of them critical, but did not provide an exact figure as emergency workers continued their search.</p>
<p>The smell of smoke lingered in the air while the grey plume visibly lessened as firefighters battled the blaze.</p>
<p>The neighbourhood was cordoned off and scores of emergency workers, police and soldiers filled the area.</p>
<figure id="attachment_179469" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-179469" style="width: 793px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/DB3D6F36-4939-4C37-99F5-C44AB7CEC68B.jpeg" alt="" width="793" height="528" class="size-full wp-image-179469" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-179469" class="wp-caption-text">Police officers and rescue workers work at the scene</figcaption></figure>
<p>Paris police spokeswoman Loubna Atta said it was too early to determine the source of the fire and could not confirm reports it was caused by a gas explosion.</p>
<p>Achille, a student, said he was in a building about 100 metres from the explosion.</p>
<p>“I was sitting on the windowsill, and we moved two meters away from the window, carried by a small blast (from the explosion) and huge fear,” he told BFM television.</p>
<p>“We came down (from the building) and saw the flames. The police gave us great support and we evacuated quickly.”</p>
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