2 die after explosion, building collapse in France

A possible gas explosion ripped off the side of a 5-story residential building in France's Champagne country on Sunday, killing at least two people and injuring at least ten others, officials said. Search teams extracted a victim's body as they pored over the rubble in a hunt for possible survivors.

More than 100 rescue workers, firefighters, sniffer-dog squads and bomb and gas experts were deployed to the gutted building in a subsidized housing complex in the city of Reims, east of Paris, officials said. (AP)