Toulouse. What were these “detonations” that held in the Empalot sector on Saturday evening?
By Guillaume Laurent
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Internet users were concerned to hear “detonations” or “explosions” in the Empalot sector, Toulouse, between 11 p.m. and midnight, Saturday September 17, 2022. Some even evoking “bullets fired”.
A car on fire
Neither the emergency services nor the police, however, have any trace of any shots in the area, but simply had to deal with car fire, occurred in a car park at the foot of a block of buildings on rue d’Antibes.
Quickly brought under control by firefighters from the Toulouse-Lougnon rescue center, the fire caused no casualties or injuries. A disaster of which the origin is “undetermined” to date, says a police source.
car tires explode
As for the muffled sound that resonated around, made to think of explosions, it was therefore not a question of “bullets fired”, as some may have feared, but very probably of an explosion linked… to the tires of the vehicle on fire, which have exploded under the effect of heat.
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