Clement Perruche
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3:52 p.m., December 07, 2021
During the night from Monday to Tuesday, a building located in the port of Sanary-sur-Mer collapsed, leaving at least one dead and several injured. Audrey Graffault, the sub-prefect of Var, was the guest of Europe Midi this Tuesday. It made a provisional assessment of the rescue and clearance operations.
This Tuesday, a building in Sanary-sur-Mer collapsed after an explosion, leaving one dead and several injured. Audrey Graffault, the sub-prefect of Var, was the guest of Europe Midi. She took stock of the disaster and drew up an inventory of the means deployed to bring the victims out of the rubble.
One dead, several injured
This Tuesday noon, searches resumed in order to find possible victims. They had been interrupted to secure one of the buildings. “A deceased person was extracted from the rubble. Two people are still wanted. Five others had been taken care of this morning by the medical services. Two [ont été] extracted from the rubble and medicalized by the Smur of Toulon. And nine people had also been evacuated from adjoining buildings and taken care of by relatives. The town hall of Sanary had also opened a gymnasium which it had made available to possible victims “, explained the sub-prefect.
The man found dead is thirty years old. The two people extracted alive from the crumbling building are a woman and her baby, rescued by a rescue dog. “We took more than two hours to get this baby out. He is currently being looked after by teams from the Samu who are there. He is fine,” Colonel Eric Grohin of the fire brigade said during a press briefing. of the Var.
A police investigation underway
To continue this research, around a hundred firefighters from Var, Bouches-du-Rhône and the battalion of marine firefighters were mobilized. “They are reinforced by soldiers who are arriving on the spot,” explained the guest from Europe 1. “Two medical teams from Smur are on site. The area is secured by 25 national police officers and municipal police officers. . ” A crane was also requisitioned on Tuesday morning to secure all the clearing work.
For the moment, the causes of this explosion which occurred around 3:50 a.m. are not known. Firefighters spoke of the smell of gas when they arrived at the scene early this morning. “It is a track. However, at this stage, we do not know more”, explained the sub-prefect. A police investigation is underway.