Italian officials search for survivors after building collapse

Italian authorities are searching for trapped survivors after a five-story apartment building near the southern city of Naples collapsed Friday morning. Italy’s ANSA news agency said a train had just passed by on an adjacent train track before the building collapsed just after 6 a.m. in the seaside town of Torre Annunziata. Vincenzo Ascione, the town’s mayor, told the news agency seven people from two families remain missing, including two children. Ascione said no one had been living in the building’s first two floors, which were both undergoing renovation. About 30 rescue workers gathered to remove the rubble by hand as firefighters used ladders to check the stability of what was left of the building.