3 Tewas Diduga Akibat Ledakan Gas Runtuhkan Apartemen
3 Dead after Suspected Gas Explosion Causes Building to Collapse
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Parulian Manalu
TIGA orang tewas dan sedikitnya 14 lainnya telah terluka setelah sebuah ledakan, diyakini telah disebabkan kebocoran gas, menyebabkan sebuah bangunan runtuh sebagian runtuh di Reims, Prancis.
Lebih dari 100 petugas penyelamat, pemadam kebakaran dan penjinak bom dan ahli gas dikerahkan ke gedung di yang berada kompleks perumahan bersubsidi yang runtuh pada Minggu pagi di kota di Champagne wilayah timur Paris.
Walikota Reims, Adeline Hazan mengatakan kepada televisi BFM Prancis bahwa "ledakan sangat kuat" telah terjadi namun penyebabnya belum jelas.
Dia mengatakan mayat dua orang tewas tetap berada di bawah reruntuhan, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Bangunan yang direnovasi beberapa tahun yang lalu, dilaporkan dibuat pada dekade 1960-an atau 70-an dan begitu pula sekitar selusin flat lainnya.
"Dua orang tewas dan sembilan terluka, dari angka sementara jumlah korban setelah kecelakaan itu, kata juru bicara departemen pemadam kebakaran kota.
Pemerintah setempat mengatakan penyebab 'kemungkinan' dari runtuhnya gedung empat lantai adalah ledakan gas.
Seorang fotografer hadir di tempat kejadian - mengutip petugas penyelamat - mengatakan korban masih terkubur di bawah reruntuhan bangunan.
Pejabat penyelamatan, berbicara dengan syarat anonim karena ia tidak berwenang untuk membahas masalah ini, mengatakan ia tidak bisa segera mengkonfirmasi apakah ledakan telah terjadi.
THREE people are dead and at least 14 others have been injured after an explosion, believed to have been caused by a gas leak, caused a building to partly collapse in the French city of Reims.
More than 100 rescue workers, firefighters and bomb and gas experts were deployed to the building in the subsidised housing complex that collapsed on Sunday morning in the city in the Champagne area east of Paris.
Reims mayor Adeline Hazan told France's BFM television that 'a very powerful explosion' had taken place but the cause was unclear.
She said the bodies of the two people killed remained under the rubble.
The building, which was renovated several years ago, is reported to date from the 1960s or 70s and about a dozen flats are affected.
'Two people died and nine were hurt,' in a provisional toll after the accident, a spokesman for the city's firefighting department.
Local authorities said the 'probable' cause of the collapse of the four-storey building was a gas explosion.
A photographer present at the scene - citing rescue workers - said victims were still buried under the rubble of the building.
The rescue official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to discuss the matter, said he could not immediately confirm whether an explosion had taken place.
