This Thursday morning, a person is still missing the day after the gas explosion in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The research continues.
A person remains untraceable this Thursday morning, following a gas explosion in the 5th arrondissement of Paris this Wednesday evening according to a police source.
The provisional toll still shows 37 injured. The vital prognosis of four of them is engaged at this stage. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed that at least two people were still potentially under the rubble without us being sure, at this stage, that they were indeed at the scene of the tragedy. According to our information, the search is continuing this Thursday morning, said the first deputy to the Town Hall of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire to our colleagues from Franceinfo
“We don’t know its origin“, he added, during a press briefing alongside the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.first elements of the investigation lead us to confirm that this explosion started from the building“, however, declared on the scene the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris, Laure Beccuau.
270 firefighters and 70 machines, including a truck specializing in rescue and clearing, were engaged on the scene, rue Saint-Jacques, in the district of the former military hospital of Val-de-Grâce. Experts from the central laboratory of the police headquarters were also dispatched, noted an AFP journalist.
According to the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez, the firefighters have “prevented the spread of the fire to two adjoining buildings which were seriously destabilized by the explosion“and were evacuated.
The facts occurred shortly before 5:00 p.m. in a building housing a private fashion school, the Paris American Academy, near the Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church.
Several witnesses and residents, interviewed by AFP, said they smelled gas and heard a “grosse explosion“.
The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “involuntary injuries by manifestly deliberate violation of an obligation of prudence or security”. The Paris judicial police have been seized.
The town hall of Paris has opened a “reception unit in order to take care of and inform the victims and the inhabitants affected.”
The municipality has also made available a psychological help cell and a dedicated channel on 39 75.
“Legal and psychological support is also offered by Paris Aide aux Victimes and the hotlines of the medico-psychological emergency cell. said a statement released Wednesday. The social landlords of the City of Paris were also mobilized. All residents and victims justifying a need for relocation will be taken care of this evening by the City“, we also read.
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