The Latest Breaking News from Marseille

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.

At least three people were killed and eight others injured during three separate shootings overnight in the port city of Marseille. Read further on Dynamite News:

At least three people died and another eight were injured after a flare up in gang violence in the French port of Marseille on Sunday night, police said.

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Protesters angry at French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms continued with scattered actions on Friday amid slowed train traffic, rows of trucks blocking access to Marseille's commercial port and debris still littering the Paris streets following the previous day's mass demonstrations. Over 450 protesters were arrested in Paris and beyond…

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On a sunny afternoon in the center of Marseille in southern France, traffic was stopped as the sound of drumming and a swarm of rollicking beasts filled the streets.

The French civil aviation authority asked airlines on Monday to cancel 20 percent of their flights at Paris-Orly and Marseille-Provence airports for Tuesday and Wednesday, due to a strike by air traffic controllers against pension reform.