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.