3 East Harlem victims to be laid to rest Wednesday

EAST HARLEM (WABC) -- Three more victims killed in the deadly gas explosion in East Harlem are set to be laid to rest Wednesday.

Family and friends with gather to bid a final farewell to George Amadeo.

Funeral services for the 44-year-old handyman will be held at 10 a.m. at the Church of St. Raymond Cemetery in the Bronx.

Services for mother and daughter Rosaura Barrios-Vazquez and Rosaura Hernandez-Barrios, 43 and 22, respectively, will be held from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Ortiz Funeral Home on East 116th Street.

On Tuesday, the NTSB found a gas main leak at the site, but they cautioned that they're still a long way from determining what caused the blast.

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The leaking gas main was adjacent to 1646 Park Avenue, one of the buildings destroyed in the March 12 blast. According to the NTSB, the leak was detected during a pressure test on the 8-inch main beneath Park Avenue. A tracer gas escaped under normal operating pressure, investigators said.

Authorities have said the blast erupted about 15 minutes after someone from a neighboring building reported smelling gas. And the NTSB said Friday that that underground tests conducted in the hours after the explosion registered high concentrations of natural gas.

However, board spokesman Eric Weiss said investigators were far from deciding what caused the explosion.

"We don't determine the probable cause until the very, very end," he said.

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3 East Harlem victims to be laid to rest Wednesday