WORLD NEWS | Rescuers find body in rubble of bombed Paris building

PARIS, June 27 (AP) — French emergency workers found a body Tuesday among the rubble of a Paris building whose facade collapsed in last week’s blast and are working to clear it, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. remains and identified.

Paris prosecutors said the discovery marked the first fatality in the blast, which left six seriously injured and more than 50 with minor injuries or psychological shock.

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Authorities have been digging through the rubble for days, trying to locate a person who was reported missing since the June 21 blast. Search and rescue efforts have been complicated by the possibility that neighboring buildings may also collapse.

The identity of the person who found the body on Tuesday was not yet known, according to the prosecutor’s office.

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Following the discovery, the initial investigation into the case was expanded to include potential manslaughter charges, the prosecutor’s office said. Prosecutors are investigating whether the explosion was caused by a deliberate violation of safety rules. A possible gas leak is one of the theories being investigated.

The French capital’s historic and sometimes aging infrastructure has seen occasional gas explosions in the past. Last week, an explosion near the historic Grace Valley Military Hospital in the city’s Fifth Ward destroyed the exterior of a private design and art college building. (Associated Press)

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