The three-story apartment building collapsed overnight Monday through Tuesday following an explosion at 3:50 a.m.
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The last person missing in the collapse of the building that collapsed in Sanary-sur-Mer, in the Var, on Tuesday December 7, was found lifeless and extracted from the rubble on Wednesday December 8 by the firefighters of the SDIS 83, indicates the prefecture of Var.
He is a 58-year-old man, disabled, wanted since yesterday. He is the son of the 91-year-old woman found dead on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. The body of a 30-year-old man was also found lifeless Tuesday morning. Five other people were injured, two of whom were extracted from the rubble.
Relief operations are now over. The 45 firefighters still present on site will now secure the site. A medico-psychological emergency unit has been activated by the Samu in the town hall of Sanary.
An investigation to determine the causes of death was opened on Tuesday by the Toulon prosecutor’s office. For the time being, the hypothesis of an explosion due to a gas leak is favored, specifies Dominique Mirkovic, deputy public prosecutor of Toulon. The explosion of the building, which was connected to the town gas network, is clearly visible on CCTV images, he said. This building, located between two creperies in the port of this town of 15,000 inhabitants, was not subject to any peril decree.