“Two lifeless bodies” were found overnight from Sunday to Monday in the rubble of the building blown up by an explosion in Marseille, in the south of France, firefighters announced.
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“Given the particular difficulties of intervention, the extraction (of the bodies from the site) will take time”, specified the firefighters in a brief press release, confirming information from the newspaper La Provence and the BFMTV channel.
“The judicial authority can then proceed to the identification” of these victims, continues the text.
“A status update will be made early in the morning,” the statement concluded.
This discovery comes just over 24 hours after the gigantic explosion that blew up a four-storey building in Marseille.
The public prosecutor of Marseille had indicated earlier on Sunday that the rescue services were still looking for eight people presumed missing in the rubble.
“This night the pain and the pain are great”, reacted for his part in a press release the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan.
“We continue to do everything to carry out the rescue operations”, he continued, assuring that “all the services of the City, accompanied by the services of the State, are always, at this very moment, fully committed to further research.