Seven people are now confirmed to have died following Friday afternoon's explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania which shook the foundations of a small town.
West Reading Borough chief of police Wayne Holben confirmed on Sunday evening the final two bodies they were searching for in the rubble at the RM Palmer plant, about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia, had been found.
The remains of the fourth and fifth victims were found early on Sunday.
The discovery of the sixth and seventh bodies has now brought the search to a close with no further victims thought to be in the wreckage.
'We are still waiting for the coroner to confirm the remaining individuals' identities, but we do believe them to be the remaining presumptive missing individuals,' Chief Holben said.
Mayor Samantha Kaag said the names of the identified victims would not be released until their families had been notified.
Smoke rises from an explosion at the R.M.
Palmer Co. plant in West Reading, on Friday
Earlier on Sunday, Frank Gonzalez was waiting to hear news of his sister, Diana Cedeno, who was working at the plant at the time of the blast and was still missing.
The Pennsylvania mother-of-two, 45, who was the only woman among her six brothers.
It has not yet been confirmed if she was among the two people found dead on Sunday evening.
'Everybody's waiting on her — six brothers. We need her back. She's the mama hen of the group,' Gonzalez said to WGAL.
'It's not good.
It's just stressful waiting, not knowing,' Gonzalez said.
'We keep reaching out, bugging, keeping her name alive just in case she is in there and says her name.'
Diana Cedeno was among two people still missing following an explosion at a chocolate factory on Friday night.
She was said to be working at the plant at the time of the blast
Cedeno's brother, Frank Gonzalez has spent much of the weekend standing on a hill overlooking the blast site, watching the rubble being cleared
Gonzalez said his sister has two adult children, including a son who is deployed overseas.
She has a side job decorating for parties and has also been studying for ministry at her church, he said.
Gonzalez said his son and nephew had also worked at the plant, but that his son had quit a few months ago 'because he said he didn´t like the smell of the gas that was in there.'
His son and nephew had complained about the smell to plant supervisors, who told them 'It's all right.
We got it. It's being handled. Don't worry about it,' he said.
Early on Sunday, Holben asked for continued prayers from the community and vowed that rescuers and officials 'will not rest until every single person affected by this tragedy has been accounted for' from the blast that occurred just before 5pm on Friday.
Rescue crews had been using heat imaging equipment and dogs to search for possible survivors after the blast destroyed one building and damaged a neighboring building.
Crews used heavy equipment to methodically and carefully pull debris from the site, Holben said.
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