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16:38, 07-Jul-2017
Eight missing after building collapses in Italy
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Updated at 9:00 p.m. BJT
Eight people including two children are missing after a four-story block of apartments has collapsed near the city of Naples in Italy on Friday, reported Xinhua News Agency.
The third and fourth floors of the building collapsed at 6:20 a.m. local time (0820 GMT) while residents were sleeping, reported the news agency, citing ANSA.
The first two floors were uninhabited and were being renovated, it said.
The four-story building which located in the town of Torre Annunziata near Naples was reportedly built in the 1960s.
Updated at 4:38 p.m. BJT
No casualties have been reported so far.
The cause remains unknown, and the firefighters are searching for those feared trapped in the debris.
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