Buildings collapse in France’s Lille, doctor missing

Rescue workers were searching through rubble for a missing doctor after two buildings collapsed in the northern French town of Lille on Saturday.

“We are almost certain that this person is in the rubble,” said fire service Lieutenant Colonel Stephane Beauventre, in a message broadcast by the CODIS emergency operations center.

“His phone is not answering, his car is in the car park... and he has not taken his duty Rota,” he added.

Two small adjoining houses collapsed on Saturday in a shopping street in the city center.