PARIS - French police detained a woman on Monday over last week's fire in a Paris hotel that killed 22 people, half of them children, a police source said.
The woman -- the girlfriend of one of the hotel's nightguards -- had been held for questioning since Monday morning, the source said, without giving any further details.
Police raised the death toll to 22 during the weekend after Friday's fire at the Paris-Opera hotel. About 50 people were also injured, including US, Portuguese, Senegalese, Ivorian, Tunisian and Ukrainian nationals.
The fire was one of the deadliest fires in the French capital for years.
Some victims tried to save themselves by jumping from windows and others tried to save their children by throwing them from upper floors after the fire broke out in the middle of the night.
Paris prosecutors launched an inquiry for involuntary manslaughter last week.
The plain six-storey hotel near the Galeries Lafayette luxury department store housed many immigrants under a state housing aid plan. Many of the victims were asleep when the fire broke out.
- REUTERS
Police hold woman over deadly Paris hotel fire
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