Five people taken to hospital with serious injuries as blaze hampers rescue operation
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 Marseille, local officials said.
Television footage showed clouds of smoke rising from the rubble as firefighters tried to put out the fire, while trained dogs were used to try to locate victims. “I was sleeping and there was this huge blast that really shook the room. I was shocked awake as if I had been dreaming,” said Saveria Mosnier, who lives in a street near the site in the La Plaine neighbourhood.
“We have to be very cautious about what the cause was at this stage,” said Christophe Mirmand, the prefect of the southern Bouches-du-Rhône region. Gas was “one possible option”, he said.
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