ROSARIO, Argentina: A powerful blast from a gas leak ripped through a 10-story apartment building in Argentina’s third largest city on Tuesday, leaving at least eight dead and 61 injured.

City officials in Rosario said at least 15 people were still missing as hundreds of firefighters and rescuers searched the rubble of the edifice that was in danger of collapse.

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