a second victim, an 82-year-old woman, found under the rubble of the collapsed building in Sanary-sur-Mer

A second victim, an 82-year-old woman, was found lifeless on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, December 8 under the rubble of the collapsed building on Tuesday at dawn in Sanary-sur-Mer, the Var firefighters announced. .

“A victim was located and then extracted, it is an 82-year-old woman who has unfortunately died”, said the Var firefighters via a press release on WhatsApp. This second victim of the tragedy was extracted around 3:40 a.m., said Captain Stéphane Nepper, stressing that “the search continued throughout the night without interruption.”

A last person, a priori the son of this octogenarian, is still missing, the day after the discovery of a first body, that of a man in his thirties.

This first victim was the father of the baby found safe and sound on Tuesday morning with his mother, herself only injured in the legs. This man had been fatally shot in the neck by a fall from a roof structure, Toulon interim prosecutor Dominique Mirkovic said on Tuesday.

In total, according to the latest report, the collapse of this building left two dead and five injured, the mother, her child as well as three lightly injured quickly evacuated to the hospital on arrival of help.

“Time is against us”, Colonel Eric Grohin, the Var fire chief, conceded late Tuesday afternoon, while the dogs of the dog teams dispatched to the site did not give “no signs of life” : corn “it is a long-term operation”, he insisted.