Hope Fades for Missing Men as Two Bodies Are Found

New York police said a second body was found at the site where a three Manhattan buildings collapsed last Thursday, after an apparent gas explosion.

The identities of the two dead, found amid the rubble Sunday, have not been released.

Authorities have been looking for signs of two missing men, both believed to have been inside a an East Village sushi restaurant at the time of the explosion.

Twenty-six-year-old Moises Lucon worked at the restaurant and 23-year-old Nicholas Figueroa was a bowling alley worker who had been there on a date.

On Sunday afternoon, about a dozen friends and family of Figueroa gathered within sight of the rubble.

One man shouted to police and fire fighters passing by: “Don't give up on us. We have faith in you and we haven't given up on you. Our brother's in there. He's safe, I know he is.”

But hope did begin to fade on Sunday afternoon when a second body was pulled from the rubble.

Speaking at a parade earlier in the day, Mayor Bill de Blasio said it’s too soon to draw firm conclusions about the cause of the blast, but he reiterated that it appeared to be related to a gas line.

“There's reason to believe so far that there may have been inappropriate tampering with the gas lines within the building but until we get full evidence we can't conclude that,” the Mayor said.