The Latest Breaking News from Marseille

The UK has been hotter than many of Europe's tourist hotspots such as Rome, Marseille and Monaco over the Easter weekend but more April showers and blustery gales are heading towards the country

Firefighters still working at the scene, which was not yet stabilised hours after the initial explosion

Firefighters, with the help of urban rescue experts, worked through the night and all day in a slow race against time to find victims.

Emergency forces were searching for 10 people after a building  collapsed in Marseille, but a fire was making rescue efforts difficult.

Local mayor says ‘we have to be prepared to have fatalities in this terrible tragedy’

Local authorities said six people remain unaccounted for after the blast in the La Plaine neighbourhood

France's interior minister says up to 10 people may be buried under the debris of a building that collapsed following an explosion in France’s port city of Marseille

A five-storey residential building in Marseille, southern France, collapsed in the middle of the night and firefighters are desperately working to save potential victims

Eight people are not responding to calls and are thought to be under the rubble of two buildings that collapsed in an explosion early on Sunday in the southern French city of Marseille, local officials said.

The mayor of the French port city of Marseille said on Monday "there is still hope" of finding survivors after a building collapsed following an explosion. Eight people were unaccounted for after the apartment building collapsed early on Sunday in the Mediterranean city.

Two bodies were found in the rubble of a building that collapsed in Marseille following a major explosion, the fire department announced on Monday morning.