MARSEILLE — Rescue workers in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille were scrambling to find eight people unaccounted for on Sunday (April 9) after an apartment building collapsed following a major explosion, officials said.
Five people from neighbouring buildings sustained minor injuries in the blast that destroyed the four-storey block at around 12.40am .
Firefighters said the conditions made it difficult to deploy sniffer dogs, which had not yet found any victims. "We very quickly smelled a strong gas odour that hung around, we could still smell it this morning," she added. More than 100 firefighters were battling the blaze in the ruins of the building, believed to have one apartment on each floor.
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