Harlem explosion

Federal investigators say a gas main leak has been discovered near the site of last week's deadly New York City building explosion but it has not been identified as the cause of the blast.

Eight people killed in a suspected gas explosion that leveled two Manhattan apartment buildings died of either blunt trauma or smoke inhalation and burns, officials said Monday.

Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a gas explosion in New York City continued to treat it as a rescue operation, holding onto the possibility of finding survivors from a blast that brought down two apartment buildings and killed at least eight people.

Rescue workers using dogs and thermal-detection gear searched the rubble Thursday for victims of a gas explosion that killed at least seven people, while investigators tried to pinpoint the leak and determine whether it had anything to do with New York's aging gas and water mains, some dating to the 19th centu

As officials in Ewing Township continue to investigate a gas line explosion that killed one woman, injured several people and leveled 22 townhouses last week, officials in New York have launched a probe into a gas explosion in East Harlem yesterday that destroyed two buildings and caused several serious injuries.

A thunderous explosion apparently caused by a gas leak flattened two East Harlem apartment buildings Wednesday, killing at least three people, injuring more than 64 and leaving more than a dozen others missing.