6 bodies found in Miami condo rubble in a day; 18 now dead
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Rescue teams are entering their seventh day searching the rubble of a collapsed building in Surfside
SURFSIDE, Florida Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava says two additional victims have been found in the rubble of a collapsed condo building, bringing the death toll to 18.
Cava announced the information at a Tuesday evening news conference.
Levine Cava says two of the victims were children.
She says the number of residents unaccounted for now stands at 147.
Earlier Tuesday, officials confirmed that they had found four additional victims, for a total of six - the highest one-day death toll so far.
Mayor says 2 more victims found in rubble; death toll at 18
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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) – Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava says two additional victims have been found in the rubble of a collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, bringing the death toll to 18.
Cava announced the information at a Wednesday evening news conference. Levine Cava says two of the victims were children. She says the number of residents unaccounted for now stands at 145. Earlier Wednesday, officials confirmed that they had found four additional victims, for a total of six – the highest one-day death toll so far.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
The number of dead from the collapse of a 12-story condo in Surfside took on an even more sobering tone Wednesday when it was announced that two bodies recently recovered were children, aged four and 10. Any loss of life, especially given the nature of this unexpected, unprecedented event, is a tragedy, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. But the loss of our children is too great to bear.
The afternoon announcement came after a day in which more than 200 search-and-rescue specialists worked in sticky humid conditions with intermittent downpours, all with eyes on a system brewing in the Atlantic that could hamper their efforts.
Therapy dog consoles families of Florida condo collapse
Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP
By: Scripps National
and last updated 2021-06-30 16:49:33-04
SURFSIDE, Fla. â A therapy dog is helping to console those whoâve lost a loved one in Florida after a condo collapsed last week.
Cash, a 7-year-old golden retriever, offers emotional support to those who lost family members in Surfside.
On Wednesday, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said that rescuers recovered the bodies of four additional victims from the rubble of the collapsed condo, which brings the death toll from last week s disaster to 16.
Levine Cava added that 147 people are still missing.