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99 people unaccounted for after Florida building collapse: US media

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Images of a partially collapsed 12-story oceanfront apartment block in Surfside, Florida, that killed at least one person. The Miami-Dade Police Department was quoted by several local media as saying 53 residents of Champlain Towers had been accounted for, but that 99 had not, although officials have stressed it is still unclear how many people were in the building at the time. IMAGES

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