![]() ![]() ![]() The "violent" fire which broke out after the explosion has now been "contained", Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said at the scene, adding that "work is still taking place under the rubble" to find any more possible victims. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo assembled a crisis unit and wrote on Twitter: "My thoughts go first and foremost to the victims and their loved ones." Windows as far as 400 metres (440 yards) away were shattered, AFP reporters said. Several witnesses told AFP at the scene they had heard "a giant explosion". The fire service had said there had been "an explosion" which had "caused the collapse of two buildings", but police later said only one building had collapsed. Some 70 fire trucks and 270 firefighters battled the blaze. Images showed wreckage littering the area around the building, as the flames smouldered. The blast was followed by a major fire which caused the building, housing a fashion school, to collapse in a historic district of the French capital. ![]()
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