After that, at least 8 people are missing the collapse of a building in the center of Marseille due to an explosionthe causes of which are unknown and which also caused five injuries, the French authorities indicated.
“We have eight people we haven’t been able to contact…
The collapse of the building in the center of France’s second most populous city occurred in the early hours of Sunday.
“Tonight at 12:40 (19:40 on Saturday in Argentina) there was a collapse of a building in via Tivoli 17, causing part (of the buildings in) via Tivoli 15 and 19 to fall”, Benoît Payan, mayor of this port city, he told the press.
“We have to be prepared there are casualties in this terrible tragedy‘Payan said after the four-story building collapsed.
He added that so far they have counted five wounded, although none of them are in serious condition.
According to the prosecution, which cited a possible ninth missing person, they managed to identify the missing, among whom there are no children, due to the inability of their relatives to contact them.
The Marseille prosecutor acknowledged that “at the moment it is impossible to know the causes of the explosion” which devastated the building.
“The gas is obviously one of the clues” that authorities are contemplating, he added.
“It was huge, like an explosion,” Gilles, a man who declined to give his last name and who lives on a street perpendicular to the collapsed building, told AFP.
Since early Sunday morning, firefighters have been trying to put out the blaze which is preventing rescuers and sniffer dogs look for the missing among the rubble.
An AFP photographer discovered that there was still a large cloud of smoke on Sunday afternoon.
French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed his “excitement” over this tragic event.
The collapse of two buildings on Rue Aubagne, also in central Marseille, in November 2018 left eight dead. These buildings were in serious unsanitary conditions.
Source: Clarin
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