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Another 2 bodies found in Mexico oil company blast

AAA??Feb. 3, 2013?7:51 PM ET
Another 2 bodies found in Mexico oil company blast
AP

Family members mourn in front of a coffin containing the remains of Eva Melchor, a victim of the Mexico oil company office building explosion, at a cemetery in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. Melchor died Thursday, in a blast that collapsed the lower floors of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, headquarters, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Family members mourn in front of a coffin containing the remains of Eva Melchor, a victim of the Mexico oil company office building explosion, at a cemetery in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. Melchor died Thursday, in a blast that collapsed the lower floors of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, headquarters, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A relative leans on a burial chamber during the graveside ceremony for Eva Melchor, a victim of the Mexico oil company office building explosion, in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. Melchor died Thursday, in a blast that collapsed the lower floors of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, headquarters, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

An employee culls through debris searching for office documents amid the rubble left from an office building explosion, in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. A Thursday blast collapsed the lower floors of the Mexican state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, headquarters, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121. A Pemex spokesman said the floors hit by the explosion housed administrative offices. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks to media members at the site where an explosion occurred at the state-owned oil company PEMEX office complex in Mexico City, Sunday Feb. 3, 2013. Mexico's state-owned oil company says rescuers have found another body amid the rubble of a headquarters building damaged by a still-unexplained blast. The find raises the death toll of Thursday's explosion to about 34 people. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Maria Luisa Ojeda, sister of Luis Ojeda, cries at the site where an explosion occurred at the state-owned oil company PEMEX office complex in Mexico City, Sunday Feb. 3, 2013. Mexico's state-owned oil company says rescuers have found another body amid the rubble of a headquarters building damaged by a still-unexplained blast. The find raises the death toll of Thursday's explosion to about 34 people. According to Maria Luisa Ojeda, his brother is still trapped under the debris. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

(AP) ? Mexico's state-owned oil company says it has found two more bodies amid the rubble of a headquarters building damaged by a still-unexplained blast. The find raises the death toll of Thursday's explosion to 35 people.

Petroleos Mexicanos operations director Carlos Murrieta had said that rescue crews were looking in the rubble for several more people reported missing, and believed their bodies were in the building's most damaged part.

The bodies of two of the four more people reported missing by their relatives were recovered Sunday.

Officials still have not given any cause for the explosion, though they have said they suspect it was an accident. The blast also injured 121 people.

Rescuers had initially concluded their search Friday but resumed operations when they suspected more bodies were in the rubble.

Associated Press
People, Places and Companies: Mexico

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