Explosion in Paris, France killed a child, a teenager, and two adult women early Sunday morning. An apartment building in a suburb in Paris suddenly collapsed after an explosion occurred. As Le Parisien has reported, four more people have been trapped under the rubble of the collapsed four-story building. There were 11 others who were injured, five were in critical condition.
During the immediate aftermath of the explosion in Paris, France, the exact ages of the victims were not identified right away.
As reported by Le Parisien, a child who was 11 years old died when the apartment building collapsed and a woman in her 40s were also found dead as they removed her body from the rubble of the explosion in Paris, France. Other reports said that the victims were aged 8 and 80 years old.
Later during the day, another lifeless body of a woman in her 40s was pulled out from under the building. The rescuers who rushed to the site of the explosion in Paris, France also recovered a lifeless body of a teenage boy.
All in all, ten people were pulled from the rubble, according to the statement from the spokesperson of the local fire department. The first rescuers who responded to the site where the explosion in Paris, France happened used their dogs to search for the other victims who could have still been miraculously alive under all that heavy debris.
Gabriel Plus, the spokesperson, was hoping that some of the people who were trapped under the rubble could still be alive, and stated, "We could still find living victims in the hours to come."
An investigation ensued, and according to the local officials who looked into the explosion in Paris, France, there was a huge possibility that the accident was caused by a gas leak.
Bernard Cazeneuve, the French Interior Minister, went to where the explosion in Paris, France, occurred, and said that his thoughts went out to the victims and the family of those who were killed in this tragedy. He also mentioned that there were 22 people who were evacuated from the apartment building and that they were all transported to another housing.
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