One person was still missing on Thursday after a blast ripped through a building in central Paris, while six others were in critical condition receiving urgent treatment in hospital as rescuers sifted through wreckage.
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.
It sparked a major fire that caused the building -- housing a private fashion school called the Paris American Academy -- to collapse. A single fire hose was still sporadically spraying the remains of the building, while some of the nearby shops had reopened.The mayor of the fifth arrondissement said a gas explosion was behind the blast, and several witnesses and resident told AFP they had smelled gas just before it occurred.
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