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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Sun Mar 29, 2015, 05:55 PM Mar 2015

CITY OFFICIALS: TWO BODIES RECOVERED FROM SITE OF EAST VILLAGE EXPLOSION

Source: 7online.com (ABC)

EAST VILLAGE (WABC) -- City officials tell ABC News that two bodies have been discovered in the rubble of an apparent gas explosion that leveled three buildings in Manhattan's East Village.

A spokesperson for the family of Nicholas Figueroa says the family positively identified him, and thanked the community for their help.

The other body that was recovered has not been positively identified yet.

Read more: http://7online.com/news/two-bodies-recovered-from-site-of-east-village-explosion/574555/

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CITY OFFICIALS: TWO BODIES RECOVERED FROM SITE OF EAST VILLAGE EXPLOSION (Original Post) LiberalElite Mar 2015 OP

So sad Warpy Mar 2015 #1

Maybe because it was on a weekday LiberalElite Mar 2015 #2

If that's true, then another case of profits over life. AngryDem001 Mar 2015 #3

The preemption is that they were eating in one of the restaurants brooklynite Mar 2015 #4

One of the missing was on a date there and one worked there - LiberalElite Mar 2015 #5

Warpy

(111,354 posts)

1. So sad

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 07:42 PM

Mar 2015

I was hoping they were in the hospital, zonked out but expected to recover when they woke up.

Still, it's amazing that even more people didn't die. Those buildings went up fast.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)

2. Maybe because it was on a weekday

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 07:48 PM

Mar 2015

I'm speculating that most were at work. I think I read one building was mostly vacant. Still, it's NYC and densely populated. If it had happened at night or on a weekend.... There are still some residents looking for their pets.

I suspect this was no accident based on the latest. One crooked landlord + one crooked contractor = numerous lives disrupted, ruined or lost.

AngryDem001

(684 posts)

3. If that's true, then another case of profits over life.

Reply to LiberalElite (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 09:09 PM

Mar 2015

brooklynite

(94,740 posts)

4. The preemption is that they were eating in one of the restaurants

Reply to LiberalElite (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 09:21 PM

Mar 2015

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)

5. One of the missing was on a date there and one worked there -

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 06:56 AM

Mar 2015

They've identified the guy on a date (his date stumbled outside and fell over unconscious on the sidewalk). The other body found has been described as "too mangled" for identification so they're waiting on DNA results.

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