Authorities have recovered the bodies of all eight people who were previously reported missing after a four-storey building collapsed on the southern outskirts of Naples.

National fire brigade spokesman Luca Cari said  rescuers pulled an eighth body out of the rubbles on Saturday.

He noted that a total of eight people were reported missing on Friday.

“Rescuers had continually combed through the rubbles since the building collapsed at around 6:30 am (0430 GMT) on Friday.

“We recovered all the bodies, we found them all, dead,” Cari said.

He said search and rescue operations had ended and that the eight victims included two young brothers, aged 14 and eight.

Neighbours said there were no sound of any explosion and suggested that construction work had caused the collapse.

According to local media, renovation work was being carried out on the lower levels of the property and residents in higher floors had complained of damage to their apartments.