Five Dead in fire in the attic

In the case of a fire in Rhineland-Palatinate, Lambrecht, five people have been killed. The fire broke out late Thursday evening in the roof of an apartment building. The property damage is several hundred thousand euros. the

residential house fires with such disastrous consequences are rare in Germany. In the case of a fire in a top floor of a multi family house in Rhineland-Palatinate, Lambrecht, five people have been killed. "It's not yet all identified," said a police spokesman for the German press Agency. For more information about the dead, he could not give. There are no children.

The fire had broken out on Thursday against 23.30 o'clock, as the public Prosecutor of Frankenthal and the police informed the Bureau of the Rhine Palatinate. The cause of the fire was unclear. The criminal investigation is ongoing. Lambrecht

The fire was reported by residents out of the house, said the police spokesman. The other apartments had been vacated. Injury would not have suffered the rest of the inhabitants. "Currently running damping-down work," the spokesman said early Friday morning. The amount of property damage is reported at several hundred thousand euros. For more information, want to give the police at a press conference at 10 am.

In the past years, there have been several cases that resulted in nationwide attention to the cause: In October 2015, the apartment died in a fire in an attic in Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg, four residents died - probably due to the wrong use of a radiant heater. In March 2013, a fire in Backnang in Baden-Württemberg, died in an apartment a woman and seven of her children at the age of 6 months to 17 years. Also in this case, the occupants of the house caused the fire, according to the investigators accidentally.