Following a significant explosion in central Paris' Latin Quarter, police have reported that two persons are still missing and seven others are in critical condition.

The explosion caused buildings to catch fire, littered a roadway with debris, and blasted a plume of black smoke across the French capital, injuring at least 30 people in total. Additionally, it blew out windows and brought down the popular with international students exterior of the Paris American Academy design school.

A fire was reported in Rue Saint-Jacques in the fifth arrondissement of Paris, close to the Jardin Du Luxembourg and the Sorbonne University, according to interior minister Gerald Darmanin.

Edouard Civel, the local deputy mayor, mentioned a gas explosion on Twitter, and French witnesses confirmed this.

 

 

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This all happened just up the road and barely 1 km from where I'm staying with my sister at the moment. We heard a loud thud inside her flat around 6:50pm local time followed by wailing sirens which seemed to continue from emergency vehicles rushing to the scene for an eternity. When we eventually ventured outside we found ourselves inside a police cordon and were told that, if we crossed it, we wouldn't be let back in.