Some 70 fire engines and 270 firefighters battled the blaze before it was contained. "The toll could have been higher," Paris deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire told FranceInfo radio. It sparked a major fire that caused the building - housing a private fashion school called the Paris American Academy - to collapse.Īccording to the mother of one of the students, writing on the school's Facebook account, the classrooms were empty at the time because students were attending a Paris Fashion Week show.
The shockwave knocked out windows up to 400 metres (440 yards) away. We've had to put up plastic sheets because it's raining," she said. Everything shook," Violeta Garesteaw, a caretaker in a nearby building, told AFP on Thursday after sweeping up glass in the courtyard. The blast occurred on Wednesday afternoon in the city's fifth arrondissement, close to the Luxembourg Gardens and at the edge of the Latin Quarter, a top tourism area in the French capital. "The search continues for the second," it added, cautioning: "These figures could still change." "Among the two people who were being sought in the rubble, it turned out that one had already been admitted to hospital," the prosecutor's office said.
Prosecutors said around 50 people were injured in the explosion and building collapse on the Rue Saint Jacques street, potentially caused by a gas leak.
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