</s>MILAN (AP) — Five-story apartment building collapses near the southern Italian city of Naples, authorities search for any trapped.</s>A five-story apartment block has collapsed near the southern Italian city of Naples, and authorities are working to find anyone who may have been trapped.</s>A five-story apartment block has collapsed near the southern Italian city of Naples, and authorities are working to find anyone who may have been trapped. Firefighters told Sky TG24 that six or seven people are believed to be buried in the rubble in the town of Torre Annunziata.

Start the conversation, or Read more at Manawatu Evening Standard.</s>ROME, July 7 (Reuters) - Part of a four-storey apartment block near the Italian port city of Naples collapsed on Friday, leaving eight people missing, rescue workers said.

Fire fighters and other rescuers are still searching among the wreckage of the building overlooking the sea, which crumbled at around 6:20 a.m. local time, but so far no-one has been found.

The cause of the collapse in the town of Torre Annunziata is still unknown and local prosecutors have opened an investigation. (Reporting by Gavin Jones; Editing by Hugh Lawson)</s>By The Associated Press

MILAN (AP) — Five-story apartment building collapses near the southern Italian city of Naples, authorities search for any trapped.

Copyright © 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.</s>A five-story apartment block collapsed today near the southern Italian city of Naples, and authorities were digging by hand to find anyone trapped.

Rescuers work amid the rubble of a building that collapsed, left, in Torre Annunziata, near Naples, southern Italy.

Firefighters said in a tweet that up to eight people may be buried in the rubble in the seaside town of Torre Annunziata, some four kilometres from the Pompeii archaeological site.

The news agency ANSA quoted witnesses as saying that there was no explosion before the collapse sometime after 6am (local time), but that a train had just passed by on adjacent train tracks.

Images show the structure partially collapsed, revealing the interior of some apartments.

Rescuers workers remove rubble from a building that collapsed in Torre Annunziata, near Naples, southern Italy.

Some 30 rescue workers were removing rubble by hand, passing it out in buckets, as firefighters on long, retractable ladders checked the stability of the section that remained intact.

At one point, the digging was paused while a sniffer dog checked the scene.

News reports indicated that reconstruction work was being carried out on the building before the collapse.

The train line that passes Mount Vesuvius and connects Naples with such tourist sites as Pompeii and the Amalfi coast has been closed.</s>A five-story apartment block has collapsed near the southern Italian city of Naples, and authorities are working to find anyone who may have been trapped.

Firefighters told Sky TG24 that six or seven people are believed to be buried in the rubble in the town of Torre Annunziata.

The news agency ANSA quoted witnesses as saying that there was no explosion before the collapse Friday morning but that a train had just passed by on adjacent train tracks.

Images show the structure partially collapsed, revealing the interior of some apartments. Firefighters on long, retractable ladders were checking the stability of an adjacent building in the residential neighborhood.</s>Rescuers in southern Italy are trying to find eight people missing after an apartment block collapsed in Naples. Italian media say two families were …</s>Up to eight people, including two children, are feared to have been buried in the rubble of an apartment block in southern Italy.

About 30 rescue workers are removing debris by hand after the four-storey building partially collapsed in a town near the city of Naples.

It’s reported construction work was being carried out on the block.
A five-story apartment block collapses in the town of Torre Annunziata near the Italian city of Naples, with six or seven people trapped inside. So far, three have been found dead.