An apartment building collapsed in an apparent explosion Sunday in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille, injuring five people, with authorities warning up to 10 victims could be under the burning rubble. ManilaBulletin
"Everything shook, you could see people running and there was smoke everywhere, the building fell onto the street," local grocer Aziz told AFP, asking that his family name not be used.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on the scene that there were between four and ten people trapped under the rubble. "Time is of the essence" to discover possible survivors among the ruins, Marseille fire chief Lionel Mathieu said. "I am thinking of those affected and of their loved ones... thank you to the firefighters and emergency workers," President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter.Deputy mayor Yannick Ohanessian told journalists at the scene that "several witnesses have reached us this morning to say there was a suspicious smell of gas".
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