IRNA � French Foreign Ministry has conveyed condolence to the bereaved families of the victims of the Plasco building inferno in Tehran.

The French foreign ministry, on its website on Saturday, voiced solidarity of the French people with the Iranian nation over the tragic fire incident in the huge trade center in downtown Tehran which resulted in its collapse claiming many lives including those of a number of the firefighters who had rushed to the site of the incident immediately after it broke out on Janurary 19.

Iran's embassy in France has opened a memorial book for the victims of the deadly fire.

The flag in the embassy is also half-hoisted to observe the national mourning day announced in Iran in the memory of the firefighters who were killed while trying to extinguish the rages of fire.

The 17-storey trade center, the first high-rise building of the Iranian capital, caught fire on Thursday morning and collapsed in just three hours.

According to member of Tehran City Council Morteza Talaie, bodies of four firefighters have been recovered from the debris increasing the number of the dead firefighters to five with the one who had lost his life in the hospital.