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Explosion Rips Side From 5 Story Apartment Building–Hundreds May Have Been Killed
A possible gas explosion has ripped off the side of a five-story residential building in France’s Champagne province, killing up to three people and injuring at least ten others, officials have said.
Search teams uncovered a victim’s body as they scoured through the rubble in a hunt for possible survivors on Sunday.
More than 100 rescue workers, firefighters, sniffer-dog squads and bomb and gas experts were deployed to the damaged building in a housing complex in the city of Reims, east of Paris, officials said.
Reims Mayor Adeline Hazan said that the cause of the explosion was still under investigation, but it had the earmarks of a possible gas explosion.
“We do not know the cause of the explosion, it was probably a gas explosion,” she said. MOREHERE
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