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Florida condo collapse death toll rises to 60 as recovery work continues

Florida condo collapse death toll rises to 60 as recovery work continues

BRAD BROOKS THE death toll in the partial collapse of a Miami-area condo building has hit 60 as the effort to identify and recover the 80 people still unaccounted for - most of them presumed dead - continued at an urgent pace, officials said. One day after declaring there was no longer hope of finding anyone alive in the rubble of the tower in Surfside, Florida, crews sifting through the wreckage found six more bodies - taking the number of fatalities to 60 - Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told a news conference on Thursday morning. Levine Cava said…
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Scores feared dead as rescuers soldier on nearly week after Florida condo collapse

Scores feared dead as rescuers soldier on nearly week after Florida condo collapse

GABRIELLA BORTER RESCUE crews found more bodies overnight in the shattered ruins of a collapsed Miami-area condominium tower, the leader of an Israeli search team has said, after days of scant progress in discovering the fate of dozens of people still missing. Twelve people have been confirmed killed in the disaster, which could rank as one of the deadliest accidental structural failures in U.S. history. But 149 others were still missing and believed trapped in the rubble. Nobody has been pulled alive from the mounds of pulverized concrete, splintered lumber and twisted metal since the early hours of the disaster.…
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