PARIS — An explosion potentially caused by a gas leak ripped through a building in central Paris on Wednesday (June 21), leaving four people fighting for their lives and causing a wave of destruction, officials said.
Rescue workers were in the evening still searching the rubble for two missing individuals who had not been accounted for, according to French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
The fire service had said there had been"an explosion" which had"caused the collapse of two buildings", but police later said only one building had collapsed.Windows as far as 400m away were shattered, AFP reporters said. The firefighters"prevented the spread of the fire to two adjoining buildings which were seriously destabilised by the explosion" and"were evacuated", Mr Nunez added.
"We heard a second explosion, less than two minutes after the first, and we watched the front of the building crumble," he said. Ms Sarah Taheraly, who works at the nearby Institut Curie, a medical research centre, said she felt her building tremble."It was like a muffled sound," she said. However, officials said they did not have enough evidence to determine the cause of the blast with certainty.
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