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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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Families pray for ‘miracle’ with 159 missing in Florida condo collapse

Families pray for ‘miracle’ with 159 missing in Florida condo collapse

FRANCISCO ALVARADO  RESCUE workers scouring the debris of a collapsed condo building in a Miami suburb said they heard sounds in the rubble overnight, as officials raised the number of people unaccounted for to 159 and the confirmed death toll to four. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters that three more bodies were pulled from the wreckage overnight. Another person was reported to have died on Thursday. The mayor also said the number of presumed missing had increased from the 99 reported missing on Thursday. "I'm praying for a miracle," Rachel Spiegel, whose mother Judy Spiegel is missing, told…
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