In France, prosecutors have opened an investigation into possible involuntary homicide after at least five people were killed when part of a ceiling collapsed in a passenger terminal at Paris' main airport, Charles de Gaulle.
Three others were injured when giant slabs of concrete, metal and glass panelling came crashing down on a boarding walkway at the airport's Terminal 2E.
The footway in turn collapsed on to airport service vehicles parked underneath.
Rescue teams with sniffer dogs were called in to search the
rubble for further victims, but emergency services said the toll of
injured was unlikely to rise further.
A spokesman for the fire service said that several tonnes of concrete and glass had fallen.
Police officers who had spotted a crack appearing in the roof and were trying to cordon off the area were injured by shards of glass.
