Two buildings collapsed into a pile of rubble and beams Monday in the French city of Marseille, where authorities spoke of a race against time to find people possibly trapped in the ruins. The buildings — one condemned and supposedly vacant, the other containing apartments — gave way after 9 a.m. Marseille fire services said two people who were in the street when the buildings collapsed were treated for minor injuries. (Claude Paris/Associated Press)Images of the buildings before they collapsed, visible on Google Street View , showed that one had five floors and the other six. One of the buildings was clearly in poor repair, with boarded-up windows and large visible cracks on the facade before it collapsed.

Source: CBC News November 05, 2018 20:37 UTC