At least 29 injured as gas blast rips through building in French capital Witnesses described a deafening explosion and a giant fireball that rose several stories high on the Rue Saint-Jacques, not far from Notre-Dame
on Wednesday, injuring at least 29 people, causing fires and the collapse of the facade of a building housing a design school popular with foreign students.
Police were investigating suspicions that a gas leak caused the blast at around 4.55pm local time as rescue workers were searching for missing people feared buried under rubble. Some 270 firefighters were involved in putting out the flames and 70 emergency vehicles were sent to the scene. The fire was contained Wednesday evening but had not yet been extinguished by the time that Paris bars and restaurants began celebrating the summer solstice with a citywide annual music festival.
Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said the building housed a private school, the Paris American Academy. The school was founded in 1965 and offers teaching in fashion design, interior design, fine arts and creative writing.
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