{"id":4843,"date":"2023-04-10T19:11:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/french-rescue-workers-recover\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T19:14:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:14:33","slug":"french-rescue-workers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/french-rescue-workers-find\/","title":{"rendered":"French rescue workers find sixth body in rubble of collapsed Marseille buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (Reuters) -French rescue workers have found a sixth body in the rubble of buildings in the southern city of Marseille that collapsed following an explosion, a spokesperson for the police said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities had said earlier that they had identified eight people missing following Sunday&#8217;s explosion, which destroyed two residential buildings and caused a third to partially collapse. The cause of the blast is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the bodies is &#8220;gruesome, difficult and dramatic,&#8221; said housing minister Olivier Klein, speaking to reporters in Marseille, adding that the government must support the victims, their families and those who have been evacuated from their homes. <\/p>\n<p>The rescue operations were continuing with &#8220;care and determination&#8221; and 40 buildings near the site have been evacuated, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse caused a fire which has complicated rescue efforts and which was continuing to burn on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Five people were taken to hospital on Sunday with serious but not life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p>In 2018, about 1 km (0.62 mile) from the site of the Marseille buildings, three other structures considered unfit for habitation collapsed killing eight people.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Marseille said a parallel could not be drawn, while the prosecutor said the buildings that collapsed on Sunday were not known to have any structural problems, and that a gas explosion is being investigated as a possible explanation.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Layli Foroudi; Editing by Gareth Jones, Susan Fenton and Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/french-rescue-workers-find\/a-firefighter-stands-on-a-fire-truck-after-a-building\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ39050-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ39050-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (Reuters) -French rescue workers have found a sixth body in the rubble of buildings in the southern city of Marseille that collapsed following an explosion, a spokesperson for the police said on Monday. Authorities had said earlier that they had identified eight people missing following Sunday&#8217;s explosion, which destroyed two residential buildings and caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-top-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ39050-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}