Twenty-eight students from Wisconsin and Michigan were evacuated from a Paris hotel adjacent to one that caught fire and killed at least 20 people early Friday.
More than 50 people were injured, 11 seriously, in the blaze at the one-star Paris Opera hotel in the capital’s 9th district, a popular tourist area, fire officials said.
“We heard a lot of screams,” said Stanislas Bricage, a Frenchman evacuated from an adjacent hotel along with some of the students, who were wrapped in golden survival blankets but appeared unharmed.