Four days before the explosion residents started complaining of a strong gasoline-like smell coming from the sewers which became progressively more pungent over the course of days. Nearly people were 500 injured and 15.000 were left homeless.
(22 April 1992)
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Monday 4th of January 1960 (-) — Writer Albert Camus dies in a car crash at 180 km/h. The driver of the Facel-Vega FV3B car, Michel Gallimard, who was Camus' publisher and close friend, also died in the accident.