Six people were in a spectacular week Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), where the search killed in the night and injured in a building collapse eleven two men were missing.
Among the dead a mother and her two children aged 14 and 18, a child ten years, the 45-year-old woman and an adult were is.
Although it is a sad record, residents and rescue workers Rosny cling to the slim chances of them finding alive the last two people still missing.
"There's always hope," the mayor of Rosny-sous-Bois, Claude Capillon said after the discovery of two bodies at 11:30 ..
"The investigation is at night until they found all of the missing, the system must be maintained." Said Commander Gabriel Plus, a spokesman for the fire brigade.
Although fifty night rescuers were still busy, illuminated in the rubble of the building, by powerful spotlights. Some are equipped with disc cutters and tried to break through the plaster and concrete debris was removed by firefighters using buckets in a single file.
"The surgery is very risky, because part of the building that remains standing in the accident," said Lt. Col. fire Bernard Turner, who runs the rescue. Shoring works in parallel with the search.
Gaëtan Raucourt overall commander of the fire brigade of Paris, "the pit" and "air bags" were discovered during the search, and keep hope "that people have in life."
"As time goes by, the likelihood of finding survivors is low," he recalls, but the prefect of the Seine-Saint-Denis, Philippe Galli.
- "I have no doubt -
The explosion occurred at 7:00 clock he blew a four-story residential building near the RER station Rosny-sous-Bois, exposing the interior of the apartments are still standing.
Eleven people were injured, four nights a week in critical condition, including two children aged 10 and 13 years old and was taken to the hospital Necker Hospital Robert Debré, the source said.
According to this source, preferred the sound of the occasional explosion.
Website of the morning, Bernard Cazeneuve Interior Minister also set "the explosion was probably caused by a gas leak." "The construction of the gas and the ERDF (current) scene," says Gabriel commander Plus but refuse to link to this stage.
From AFP, contacted the responsible for natural gas GRDF company, said: "It has a leak before" building. "One hypothesis is no doubt that the work for the ERDF are linked," _ said the spokesman. Questioned by AFP, SPRING avoided.
"They dug the sidewalk directly in the building," he told AFP Maryline Yvon, a neighbor of 49 years, believes that the work relates. "Given the strength of the explosion, not a gas bottle, that's for sure."
, Window Ghislaine Poletto, 55, who lives two blocks away shaken. "I have no doubt, I jumped in the pants" to try to help, he said.
With few neighbors: "We were the first in the literature", "published two children" debris "two municipal policemen who overwhelmed." A child was "protected mattress and a blanket over his head, saved his life., I'm still a little out of hand and feet," said annoyed.
This building, "seems to favor it reasonable," said the Prefect, who organized the transfer of 22 persons.
