But officials later announced that the bodies were in locations that could not be reached by rescue workers.

20 brought one of the cranes down, with plans to dismantle the other, NBC affiliate WDSU in New Orleans reported.Ĭity officials said at the time that the National Guard would help to retrieve the bodies of the two victims in the wreckage. When the building fell in October, two giant cranes remained perched aside the wreckage. I would be a force until some1 took action.' 'Atrocious look for our state.'Īnother Twitter user by the name of Erica wrote, in part: 'Couldn't even imagine if either was my loved one. 'I would submit to that placing a tarp over a dead New Orleans citizen & allowing him to hang for more than 3 months, rather than figuring out a way to remove his body is 'irresponsible and indefensible,'' one Twitter user by the name of Cavett Feazel posted. 12, when a large part of the building crumbled to the ground.īut the spectacle earlier in the week of people snapping photos of the part of the building where the tarp had fallen, exposing part of one of the bodies, raised the question of why the victims had not been retrieved yet. And city officials stressed that it has been too dangerous so far to retrieve the two bodies remaining in the rubble, releasing a fact sheet that also notes the condition of the site has further deteriorated since Oct.

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