Protesters want action on New Orleans hotel bodies

Protesters marched from the site of a partially collapsed hotel on the edge of the French Quarter to City Hall in New Orleans on Friday, demanding that the remains of two victims are recovered from the rubble.The Hard Rock Hotel was under construction when it partially collapsed on 12 October last year, killing three workers and injuring dozens.

The remains of two of the dead are still inside what is left of the building, which city officials have decided to take down through implosion in March.People in the city were outraged earlier this week when a tarp at the site shifted, exposing the remains of one of the workers who died.

The tarp has since been replaced but the incident sparked cries for greater accountability.A week after the hotel partially collapsed, officials used controlled demolitions to bring down two cranes that had been leaning precariously over the building's wreckage.

But coming up with a plan to demolish the rest of the building, which is situated on a central commercial corridor, has been more problematic.The current plan is to bring the building down in a controlled implosion sometime in mid-March.

Implosion had been considered, then rejected in the weeks after the collapse.But earlier this month officials said the implosion plan was back on as it was deemed safer than having workers dismantle the structure.

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