The French health minister has said it is too soon to say whether a number of reported deaths were the result of a network outage that disrupted the number for the emergency services. The outage on Wednesday left people unable to reach help for hours. Health minister Olivier Véran said three or four deaths had been registered nationwide, but added that it was “too soon to draw conclusions”. He promised a “full report on the human consequences” of the outage. Stéphane Richard, CEO of Orange, said he had met with government officials and the situation was “now stabilised”. “The Orange group apologises to those who have been affected in recent hours,” he tweeted. French government sources posted alternative emergency numbers online after the problems began.(BBC)…[+]