1687 Emergency workers conduct search and rescue missions at the site of a partially collapsed residential building in Surfside, near Miami Beach, Florida, June 28, 2021. Reuters
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An Indian-American couple and their one-year-old child are among more than 150 people who are still missing after the collapse of part of a 12-story residential building in the US state of Florida on Thursday, according to media reports on Monday.
Search and rescue teams have been feverishly scouring the site since shortly after 55 of the beachfront condominium s 136 units fell. At least nine people have been confirmed killed, officials said on Monday.
Vishal Patel, 42, his wife Bhavna Patel, 38, and their one-year-old daughter Aishani Patel are believed to be among the missing, their niece Sarina Patel told CNN, adding that Bhavna Patel is four months pregnant.
Miami Beach sending structural engineers to all buildings undergoing 40-year recertification process
Decision comes in wake of Champlain Towers South building collapse in Surfside
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Miami Beach to closely examine all buildings undergoing 40-year recertification process
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – The catastrophic condo collapse in Surfside has led to a sudden and increased awareness in other older buildings around South Florida.
The disaster at Champlain Towers South has hit close to home for city leaders in Miami Beach.
“I think probably everybody in this community is no more than one degree of separation from the families that were there,” said Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber.
Nachman Shai, second from left, speaks to Sen. Rick Scott, in cap, at the Grand Beach Hotel in Surfside, Fla., June 27, 2021. (Ron Kampeas)
JTA Nachman Shai’s first visit to the United States as Israel’s new minister for Diaspora affairs was not under normal circumstances.
“In hard times, in times of disaster, we have to stand shoulder to shoulder with Americans,” he said in an interview on Sunday in The Shul, the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue located about a mile from the remains of the collapsed Champlain Towers building here that has left 11 dead and another 150 people unaccounted for as of Monday night.
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