Eure: one person died in the explosion of Nonancourt – The Point

This Saturday, in the early afternoon, an accidental explosion killed one person and injured five, including four slightly in an apartment downtown Nonancourt (Eure), are we learned there. A man who was buried under the rubble of a building, part of which collapsed after the blast “passed away,” he told Agence France Presse early evening the sub-prefect Emmanuel Leroy. “Four people were slightly injured, most seriously another without his prognosis is engaged,” he said. Different assessments of the number of injured were released in the afternoon due to various assessments, according to sources, the concept of “injured”.

After exchanging, at first with relief that had visualized a part of his body, the victim stopped communicating during the afternoon with lifeguards, had said Emmanuel Leroy earlier Agence France Presse while efforts continued to to release that person. “According to our information, there would be nobody now among the rubble but the removal of doubt will be complete when the whole area will be freed,” he he said after announcing the death. Backed by a dog team, rescue workers are working “hand” and pursue the clearing operations. “It goes fast but not taking any chances (can cause) for worsening of the collapse situation,” said the senior official. “The exact causes of the explosion are not yet determined but one can think that it is related to a gas leak,” said Emmanuel Leroy.

The victims were rehoused

thirty people were evacuated after the explosion, which occurred in the center of the town of Nonancourt (about 2300 inhabitants), fifteen kilometers west of Dreux. The facade of this building one floor did not move and nothing is seen from the street as it is a wing of the building, overlooking a courtyard, which collapsed. Wearing tiles, the vast beige house, which houses shops on the ground floor street side and whose entourage window is highlighted in red brick, includes, according to Emmanuel Leroy, “five apartments and two studios.”

“This is a house that has been converted into apartments as is done in a lot of towns like ours, where houses used to be called ‘bourgeois’ and which housed large families are aujourd ‘hui separate apartments to accommodate smaller families in number, two or three people, “said Mayor Naonancourt Eric Aubry, stating not to have difficulty to rehouse those affected. Journalists were kept at bay all afternoon by a perimeter bounded by gendarmes which several vehicles were trying to cover up the scene. From the street, the large-scale fire, ending in a pod, overcomes the roof to view, on the back, the collapsed part. Dozens of onlookers watched the scene from the nearby roundabout. Significant resources were deployed for the relief operation, both side fire, EMS and police with a helicopter flew a moment the scene.