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Five people are now confirmed dead in Wednesday's deadly building explosion in New York City's famous Harlem neighborhood.

Rescue crews worked past midnight searching through the rubble to locate nine other people who were still missing after a gas leak caused an explosion that leveled two apartment buildings.  At least 63 people were injured.

Thick smoke from the buildings could be seen throughout much of Manhattan.  The blast sent debris over several blocks across the neighborhood and a nearby commuter rail line, suspending train service in and out of Grand Central Station for much of the day.

Residents in a nearby building called officials at energy company Consolidated Edison to report the smell of natural gas just minutes before the explosion. 

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the incident "a tragedy of the worst kind" because it happened with no time to save people.

美國紐約市著名的哈林地區兩座樓房星期三發生爆炸，目前已經證實有五人死亡。

爆炸是煤氣泄漏造成的，兩座樓房被夷為平地，救援人員連夜在瓦礫中尋找九個失蹤的人。至少63人在爆炸中受傷。

在曼哈頓大部分地區可以看到從爆炸的建築物中冒出的濃煙。爆炸造成的碎片散落在整個街區的人行道上，並且覆蓋了通勤火車的部分鐵軌，紐約大中央車站星期三大部分時間停運。

在爆炸發生前幾分鐘，附近樓房的居民打電話給煤氣供應商聯合愛迪生公司報告説，聞到有煤氣泄漏的氣味。

紐約市長白思豪將這次爆炸稱為“最糟糕的悲劇”，因為爆炸發生時沒有時間來拯救生命。

A plastinated body staged as a saxophone player is on display at the permanent exhibition "Body Worlds: The Happiness Project" by German anatomist and inventor of the plastination technique Gunther von Hagens in Amsterdam on Wednesday, Jan. 15. (AFP)

People taking part in the 13th Annual No Pants Subway Ride sit in a subway car in London on Sunday, Jan. 12. The "No Pants Subway Ride" is an annual event in which transit passengers ride trains without wearing pants in January. The event is observed in dozens of cities worldwide. (AFP)

Giant panda Yuan Yuan and her cub Yuan Zai chew on bamboo at the Taipei Zoo, yesterday. Hundreds of visitors lined up outside the Taipei Zoo before it opened its doors yesterday morning in the hopes of catching a glimpse of Taiwan's first panda cub, Yuan Zai, on the first weekend of her public debut. The cub was born on July 6, 2013, following four years of attempts at artificial insemination for mother Yuan Yuan using sperm from father Tuan Tuan. Yuan Zai's parents were given to Taiwan by China in 2008 as a symbol of the warmer ties between the two sides. (CNA)

Snow and ice are seen covering up Mississippi River and downtown St. Louis, Missouri on Wednesday, Jan. 8. An arctic blast eased its grip on much of the U.S. on Wednesday, with winds calming and the weather warming slightly a day after temperature records, some more than a century-old, shattered up and down the Eastern Seaboard. (AP)

A woman dressed as a male character waits for the beginning of La Diablada in Pillaro, Ecuador on Monday, Jan. 6. Thousands of Ecuadoreans in elaborate devil masks and red costumes dance wildly in the streets of this Andean town for the "La Diablada de Pillaro," or the Devils of Pillaro festival. Some say the festival, which runs from Dec. 28 to Jan. 6, began in the 1940s when the mainly farming families of Pillaro would gather at the end of the year to discuss their lives. The meetings would extend late into the night and end in tales of devils and souls in pain. Townsfolk decided to honor the scary tales by forming dancing groups and the custom developed into the modern La Diablada celebration of wildly dancing and howling demons. (AP)

A man dressed as one of the Three Magi sits on a camel during Epiphany celebrations in Warsaw's Old Town on Monday, Jan. 6. During Epiphany holiday, the visit of the Three Magi to the infant Jesus is commemorated. (AFP)

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