By Gabriella Borter
SURFSIDE, Fla., June 28 (Reuters) - Search and rescue teams discovered two more bodies in the concrete and steel rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still considered missing.
Recovery efforts were hampered by pouring rain and heavy slabs of cement that made searching by hand difficult.
It has now been four days since a survivor was pulled alive from the ruins of the Champlain South Towers in Surfside, Florida, which abruptly collapsed on Thursday while most residents slept. We have people waiting and waiting and waiting. That is excruciating, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told an afternoon news briefing, referring to friends and family members of the missing or dead.
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SURFSIDE Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more sets of remains from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster.
Pouring rain and slabs of cement hampered round-the-clock efforts to pick through debris left from the unexplained cave-in of nearly half of the 12-floor, 156-unit building, in what may end up as the deadliest unintentional structural failure in U.S. history.
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Searchers find 11th body in ruins of Florida condominium tower
Crews were using cranes, dogs and infrared scans as they looked for signs of life amid the ruins, hoping air pockets may have formed underneath the concrete that could be keeping some people alive.
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Rubble is piled high after the partial collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 24, 2021, in Surfside, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/TNS)
SURFSIDE, Fla., June 28 (Reuters) - Search and rescue teams discovered two more bodies in the concrete and steel rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still considered missing.
Florida condo collapse: Death toll climbs to 11, 150 missing
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Police have identified eight of the deceased, including a couple married for nearly 60 years.
Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more sets of remains from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster.
Pouring rain and slabs of cement hampered round-the-clock efforts to pick through debris left from the unexplained cave-in of nearly half of the 12-floor, 156-unit building, in what may end up as the deadliest unintentional structural failure in US history.
By Gabriella Borter
SURFSIDE, Fla., June 28 (Reuters) - Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more bodies from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster.
Pouring rain and slabs of cement hampered round-the-clock efforts to pick through debris left from the unexplained cave-in of nearly half of the 12-floor, 156-unit building, in what may end up as the deadliest unintentional structural failure in U.S. history.
No survivors have been pulled from the ocean-front ruins of the Champlain Towers South condo in the town of Surfside, near Miami, since the first hours after the building abruptly crumbled into a heap early on Thursday as residents slept.