France: Four killed in Marseille house collapse
- April 10, 2023
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Around noon, rescuers removed two more bodies from the rubble of a building that collapsed this Sunday in the French city of Marseille. increases the balance of confirmed
Around noon, rescuers removed two more bodies from the rubble of a building that collapsed this Sunday in the French city of Marseille. increases the balance of confirmed deaths to fourand four more people are listed as missing.
The latest casualties have been confirmed by the French housing minister. Olivier Kleinin statements to the media during a visit to the accident site by the mayor of Marseille (south of France) Benoit Payan.
“The search is carried out with caution, because hope of finding survivors is still present. Firefighters are doing extremely hard work. It’s a long and hard job,” Klein explained.
The damaged property is located at No. 17 Tivoli Street, and the collapse occurred around 12:40 (23:40 GMT) on the night of Saturday to Sunday. This also applies to neighboring buildings.
On the same day, rescue work was greatly hindered fire in the remains of the building.
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Marseille prosecutor Dominique Laurent said at a press conference on Sunday afternoon that there were up to eight people who “do not answer calls” they are all residents of house number 17.
Also suspected the disappearance of neighbor number 19, which also partially collapsed, but was confirmed to be safe and sound this Monday.
The main hypothesis is that the collapse was caused by an explosion. Possibly due to a gas leak.
The landslide initially affected 33 residents. of these, 6 had to be hospitalized. Five were in a state of “relative severity”, according to the mayor of Marseille, another elderly man had to be hospitalized due to a state of shock.
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Subsequently, up to 32 houses in the area must be evicted for safety reasons, just over 160 evacuees remained.
This event caused a great stir in Marseille. a city that was already hit in 2018 by the collapse of two old buildings, killing eight people.
These events also revealed acute housing crisis due to the poor condition of many buildings in the city, which forced the relocation of more than four thousand residents.
In this regard, the local authorities made sure that the building he was not in a bad state.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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