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Miami, Jun 27 (EFE/EPA).- Relatives of the some 150 people missing in the collapse of a residential building in Miami-Dade, Florida, visited the site Sunday, four days after the tragedy and in the midst of an effort to keep hope alive.Local and state authorities continued their efforts to locate survivors, while the official death toll rose to nine with 152 missing.For reasons not yet determined, the Champlain Towers South building, inaugurated in 1981 and with a total of 136 apartment over 12 floors on the beachfront in Surfside, north of Miami Beach, collapsed at 1.30 am (6.30 GMT) on Thursday as its inhabitants slept. (Camera: CRISTOBAL HERRERA). SHOT LIST: PEOPLE PRAY IN FRONT OF THE PARTIALLY COLLAPSED 12-STORY CONDOMINIUM BUILDING IN SURFSIDE, FLORIDA, US.
Search and rescue workers probe the site of a pedestrian bridge collapse in the Indian state of Gujarat on Tuesday. At least 137 people died after the bridge collapsed on Sunday evening, sending hundreds tumbling into the river. Nine people were arrested on Monday in connection with the disaster.
Rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of a four-storey residential building which collapsed in Jordan's capital. The bodies of two people were recovered and 14 more were rescued but others remained trapped. IMAGES
Miami, Jun 29 (EFE/EPA).- The death toll in the collapse of a 12-story apartment building in Surfside, Florida, rose to 12 Tuesday with the discovery of another body in the ruins, and as the number of people listed as missing dropped to 149.In the first press conference of the day, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said to the despair of the families and friends of the missing that Monday's figures had not changed, but on Tuesday afternoon she reported a new confirmed fatality. (Camera: CRISTOBAL HERRERA). SHOT LIST: THE SITE OF A 12-STORY CONDO BUILDING COLLAPSE IN SURFSIDE NEIGHBORHODD, MIAMI, FLORIDA, US.
Miami, Jun 26 (EFE).- The search for possible survivors of the partial collapse of a 12-story residential building in South Florida reached the critical stage on Saturday.Nearly three days after the disaster in Surfside, just north of Miami Beach, a fire burning amid the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex was making it increasingly difficult for rescue crews to work even as 159 people remained unaccounted for.(Camera: CRISTOBAL HERRERA)SHOT LIST: THE AREA IN WHICH THE BUILDING COLLAPSED IN SOUTH FLORIDA, US.
Rescuers comb through the rubble after a high-rise oceanfront apartment block near Miami Beach partially collapsed, killing at least one person and leaving 99 unaccounted for. IMAGES