Notre-Dame cathedral in central Paris, one of the world’s best known and most visited monuments, was devastated by fire on Monday evening in a cultural catastrophe with few precedents in peacetime.
The fire appears to have started on the roof at the back of the cathedral, where restoration work was under way with extensive scaffolding, and spread rapidly to send flames and smoke high into the sky above the French capital.
A reporter in the square in front of the famous twin towers of the medieval cathedral saw flames spreading across the roof and was bombarded with a hail of cinders and red-hot fragments of wood.
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