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Two bodies found in New York blast site
New York, March 30
Search and rescue teams
found two bodies among the ruins of the buildings hit by a powerful
explosion last week in New York's East Village neighbourhood.
Authorities
have not definitively determined the identities of the bodies, found on
Sunday after over three days of searching the explosion site that left
22 people injured and several in critical condition.
Nicholas Figueroa, 23, and Moises Lucon, 26, have been missing since the blast, according to the New York Police Department.
Figueroa
was in the Sushi Park restaurant along with a woman who survived while
Lucon, a Guatemalan immigrant, who arrived in the city seven months ago,
was working at the restaurant.
The accident occurred in a five-storey building apparently due to plumbing and gas work that was on.
The
explosion - said to have been due to a gas leak - set off a massive
blaze on Thursday evening that initially collapsed two adjacent
buildings, along with a third later in the night.