Argentina Gas Explosion Toll Hits 13

Argentine rescue workers recovered the bodies of two more people early Friday from the ruins of an explosion-shattered apartment building, raising the confirmed death toll in the disaster to 13.

Eight other people remain missing, four days after a gas leak caused a devastating blast in the three-tower complex in Rosario, the country's third-largest city, situated northwest of the capital Buenos Aires.

"With the discovery this morning of the bodies of a young woman and a man, the number of fatalities caused by the explosion rises to 13," Leonardo Caruana, the city's public health chief, told reporters.

The search for survivors continued Friday despite dimming odds for the missing.

"There is always hope," Rosario mayor Monica Fein said. "We are working carefully to search each area."

The apartment complex housed 60 apartments with 238 people.

Its central tower collapsed during the explosion, which was believed to have originated from a gas leak in a basement garage.