Nineteen hurt as blast, then fire bring down New York buildings

Nineteen people were hurt when three New York buildings collapsed and a blaze tore through another in what preliminary indications suggested was a gas-related explosion. A resident watches a blaze at a commercial and residential block on March 26, 2015, in New York's East Village Four people were critically injured after the blast ripped through a commercial and residential building in the popular East Village and then partly collapsed, triggering the collapse of the next-door building, the partial collapse of another and a huge blaze.

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