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Paris Explosion Crumbles Building, Rescue Workers Searching For 1 Missing Person

  • French rescue workers searched Thursday for a person feared missing after a powerful explosion brought down a building on Paris’ Left Bank, injuring at least 50 people.
  • In its latest update Thursday, the Paris prosecutor’s office said of the approximately 50 people hurt in the explosion and building collapse that six were in critical condition, French newspaper Le Monde reported.
  • The blast Wednesday afternoon near the historic Val de Grace military hospital in Paris’ 5th district crumpled the facade of a building that held the Paris American Academy, a private fashion and design school on the edge of the city’s tourist-frequented Latin Quarter.
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