PARIS (Reuters) – A body has been found in the rubble after a building collapsed in Paris last week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.
The victim has yet to be identified and a post mortem examination will be carried out, the department said. One person had been reported missing since the blast, which injured 50 people.
The blast – believed to have been the result of a gas explosion – tore through the Rue Saint-Jacques near the historic Latin Quarter. The street runs from near the Notre-Dame Cathedral through to the Sorbonne University.
The Paris prosecutor has opened an investigation into potential security violations and possible manslaughter.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Alison Williams)
