PARIS - Eight people are not responding to calls and are thought to be under the rubble of two buildings that collapsed in an explosion early on Sunday (April 9) in the southern French city of Marseille, local officials said. The cause of the explosion was not yet known, Marseille prosecutor Dominique Laurens said. The collapse caused a fire that...
Firefighters work after a building collapsed in Marseille, France on April 9, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.PARIS - Eight people are not responding to calls and are thought to be under the rubble of two buildings that collapsed in an explosion early on Sunday in the southern French city of Marseille, local officials said.
"We have nothing, not even an ID card. We have lost everything," said a man who gave his name only as Roland, in an interview with local newspaper La Provence. He managed to get out of the building on 15 Rue de Tivoli with his wife and two children before it collapsed, together with a neighbouring building.Five people were taken to hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries.
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