RESCUE workers with sniffer dogs were still combing the rubble of two buildings, which collapsed Monday in the southern city of Marseille, to look for 10 people reported missing following the incident, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Monday night. Housing Minister Julien Denormandie, who rushed to Marseille from Paris, said it was a “race against the clock” to find survivors. Some 100 rescue workers with sniffer dogs were combing the rubble “relentlessly,” Denormandie said, while a drone scanned the wreckage from above. Google Maps images taken in recent months showed the two collapsed buildings, in the working-class neighborhood of Noailles, had large visible cracks in their facades. The incident — rare in a major Western city — has sparked a political row over the quality of housing available to Marseille’s poorest residents.(SD-Agencies) |