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Six people killed as building collapses in Poland

Two of the victims are children
Two of the victims are children

Six people, including two children, were killed when a two-story apartment building collapsed in western Poland.

Four others were injured and rescued from the rubble,  in the town of Swiebodzice, before being  rushed to hospital.

"There are strong indications that no one else is stuck under the rubble," Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told reporters. 

A gas explosion may have caused the two-storey building to collapse, according to a spokesman for the regional Lower Silesia firefighters.