{"id":48344,"date":"2014-03-13T13:33:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=48344"},"modified":"2014-03-13T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:33:31","slug":"new-york-building-colapse-aftermath6-people-dead-by-explosion-us-news-48344","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/new-york-building-colapse-aftermath6-people-dead-by-explosion-us-news-48344\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Building Colapse Aftermath:6 people dead by explosion \/ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"New-York-Building-Collapse\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

An apparent gas explosion has levelled two buildings and sparked a fire in New York City, killing at least six people and injuring more than 50 others.<\/h1>\n

Two five-storey buildings were reduced to rubble in the blast near Park Avenue and 116th Street in East Harlem.<\/p>\n

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said more than a dozen people were missing, and that a search effort would begin after firefighters put out the blaze.<\/p>\n

The mayor emphasised that some of those considered missing could be in another location and authorities are attempting to make contact with all concerned.<\/p>\n

“This will take quite a bit of time to address,” he said.<\/p>\n

New York’s Hunter College identified one of the victims as Griselde Camacho, a security officer who had worked for the college since 2008.<\/p>\n

Carmen Tanco, 67, a dental hygienist, was also killed in the blast.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A victim is evacuated by emergency personal near an apparent building explosion fire and collapse in the Harlem section of New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The identities of the othervictims have not been confirmed.<\/p>\n

The fire department said two people suffered life-threatening injuries, while five more suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n

The remaining injuries have been classified as minor.<\/p>\n

Witnesses reported hearing a large explosion around 9.30am, after a local resident reported smelling natural gas.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Con Edison said the utility company dispatched two crews, but the blast occurred before they arrived.<\/p>\n

The utility said the person who reported the gas smell said he thought the odour could be coming from outside.<\/p>\n

Mr de Blasio said crews from Con Edison and other utilities were working to shut down services to the area.<\/p>\n

\"Explosion<\/a>
Explosion Causes Two Buildings To Collapse In Manhattan’s East Harlem Neighborhood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aerial footage showed a large plume of smoke billowing over the Upper Manhattan skyline and debris scattered across the pavement and vehicles parked on adjacent streets.<\/p>\n

Waldemar Infante, who was working in the basement of the neighbouring building when the explosion took place, said it felt like an earthquake.<\/p>\n

“There were glass shards everywhere on the ground and all the stores had their windows blown out,” he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

New York Correspondent Hannah Thomas-Peter described an “acrid smell” at the scene and said people were wearing masks due to lingering smoke.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said the blast was so powerful it knocked groceries off the shelves of nearby stores.<\/p>\n

Eoin Hayes, 26, said the explosion shook his entire apartment building.<\/p>\n

He said he ran to the window and saw flames consuming one building and smoke rising into the air.<\/p>\n

“I was in my bedroom and the explosion went off, it kind of shook the whole building,” Mr Hayes said. “You could feel the vibrations going through the building.”<\/p>\n

The FDNY says it has over 200 personnel at the scene.<\/p>\n

Metro-North Railroad has suspended all commuter train service in the area. The train line runs along the scene of the collapse, and television footage showed some debris on the tracks.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An apparent gas explosion has levelled two buildings and sparked a fire in New York City, killing at least six people and injuring more than 50 others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[66190,66187,66192,4221,66186,66189,6022],"class_list":["post-48344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-6-people-dead-building-collapse","tag-building-collapse-new-york","tag-gas-explosion-new-york-building","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-building-collapse","tag-new-york-building-collapse-aftermath","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}