Rescue crews pulled four more bodies from the debris Sunday, officials said.
in West Reading, Pennsylvania, last week, raising the death toll to seven, officials said Sunday night. All previously missing persons had been accounted for as of Sunday night.
A fifth body was found around 10:42 a.m. Sunday and was confirmed dead by the Berks County Coroner's Office, according to a statement from West Reading Mayor Samantha Kaag. R.M. Palmer, a candy company, operates a large factory building in West Reading, where the explosion occurred on Friday night. Videos recorded at the site showed flames and thick clouds of black smoke engulfing the building and billowing hundreds of feet into the air. "The investigation efforts will now be under way and we can find answers to how this happened and how/if we can prevent it from happening in the future," Kaag wrote Sunday night on Facebook.
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