Apartment block in The Hague collapses after explosion

At least five homes were destroyed in the incident but it remained unclear how many were trapped under the rubble.

Firemen stand next to a partially collapsed residential building following a fire and an explosion in The Hague on December 7, 2024. - AFPPIX: Rescue workers with sniffer dogs were scrabbling through the wreckage of a three-storey apartment block in The Hague that collapsed after an explosion and inferno in the early hours of Saturday.

Emergency services took four people to hospital in the immediate aftermath of the building collapse, as elite rescue workers trained on recovering survivors from natural disasters scoured the debris. After firefighters had extinguished the blaze, heavy construction equipment moved in to try to clear the rubble.

Forensic investigators arrived on the scene to begin to probe a potential cause for the accident, an AFP reporter said. The three floors of the building consisted of shops on the ground floors and five two-storey apartments, authorities said, with living rooms on the second floor and bedrooms on the top.The city’s mayor Jan van Zanen travelled to the site to coordinate rescue efforts. He was expected to brief reporters from city hall at 3pm .

Residents told local media the apartment block was mainly inhabited by elderly people and families with children.

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