Eight dead in collapsed Italian building

Eight people have been found dead under the rubble of a collapsed apartment building near the southern Italian town of Naples, after rescue workers searched for bodies through the night.

The five-storey apartment in the town of Torre Annunziata, built in the 1950s and overlooking the sea, crumbled at around 6.20am local time on Friday.

Rescue workers said on Friday that eight people were missing.

"We recovered all the bodies... We found them all, dead," national fire brigade spokesman Luca Cari said on Saturday.

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

Local prosecutors have opened an investigation to determine the cause of the collapse.