New York - New York police recovered two bodies on Sunday from the rubble of a Manhattan building destroyed by a suspected gas explosion.
Two people had been reported missing from a sushi restaurant ravaged by on Thursday's blast, which blew the front off a commercial and residential property on Second Avenue in East Village and led to a multi-building fire.
New York police department Sergeant Lee Jones told AFP that a body had "been recovered" around 13:00, but did not identify the victim.