Luxembourg police have confirmed that a 63-year-old man has died in a room of a house on Duerfstrooss, Tarchamps in the north of Luxembourg.
Four other people were in the house at the time and managed to escape. The man had initially been reported missing and was found dead during firefighting operations.
The public prosecutor’s office has been informed and has opened an investigation into the exact cause of the fire and the cause of death.
An emergency medical doctor (SAMU) was deployed, along with ambulance crews from Rambrouch, Wiltz and Clervaux, and fire brigades from the Upper Sûre Lake centre, Boulaide and Wiltz.
The Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (CGDIS) also reported three other fires, which caused only material damage.
Shortly after 6pm, a chimney caught fire on Um Ale Waasser in Gilsdorf. Fire brigades from Bettendorf and the Nordstad centre attended.
At around 7pm, the Lintgen fire brigade was called to Rue Marcel Noppeney in Bofferdange, where a fire had broken out on a building site.
A fire also broke out in the garage of a residential building on Rue de la Libération in Dudelange. Firefighters from Dudelange, Bettembourg and Esch were deployed, along with the GATO unit and an ambulance from Dudelange.
