France Deputy Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, has praised the courage and determination of firefighters who risked their own lives to salvage the 850-year-old Notre Dame building's stone structure and its two towers.
The fire ravaged the cathedral's roof and caused its spire to collapse and the French President Emmanuel Macron, has vowed to rebuild it within five years.
A Public Prosecutor in Paris has said that his office was favouring the theory of an accident, but has assigned 50 people to investigate the origin of the fire.
[Source: BBC World]
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