Rescue workers found seven more bodies in the rubble of the collapsed building in Miami: 86 dead in total

Search teams in the damaged residential building in Surfside, South Florida (USA), saved 7 other bodies, with what provisional death toll from the collapse stands at 86.

“It’s an amazing and heartbreaking number that affects us all very, very deeply. The magnitude of this tragedy grows day by dayThe mayor of Miami-Dade County said at a press conference this Saturday, Daniella Levine Cava.

The advisor added that The number of people missing due to the collapse now stands at 43, while the number of people located has risen to 211., in view of the work of the detectives who take part in this operation and which made it possible to update the list of those who resided in the 12-storey building.

During the only press conference of the day on this accident, which occurred at dawn on June 24, the mayor said the death toll was 62, with 61 notifications to families who lost a limb in this tragic event.

He added that the work of the Miami-Dade medical examiner’s office has increased in the wake of this tragedy and, in light of this, the coroner for neighboring Broward County has joined in the duties.

More than 13 million pounds of concrete and rubble (approximately 6 million kilos) were removed from the site where the Tours Champlain Sud condominium had been erected since 1981, with the help of some sixty working trucks. daily on site. authorities.

At least two other members of the search teams had to be hospitalized, one for a “heart attack” and the other for a laceration..

To them is added a Miami-Dade police officer, who had to undergo surgery after her foot was crushed by a truck a few days ago.

The latest victims identified by Miami-Dade Police include parents of the first lady of Paraguay, Silvana López-Moreira. It is Sophia López-Moreira, sister of the first lady; her husband, Luis Pettengill, both aged 36, and Luis Lopez Moreira III, 3 years old and one of the three children of the marriage.

Likewise, on Friday, the body of Leidy Luna Villalba, the 23-year-old who traveled with her family to work as a nanny.

The President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo BenítezHe arrived in South Florida on Friday, where he will stay until July 13, “for specific reasons related to events in the city of Miami,” as he explained in a letter to the Supreme Court. from this country.

They have also been identified Benny Weisz, 31 years; Angela Velasquez, 60 years old, e Anne Naybrif, 21, according to the latest Miami-Dade police report.

The causes of the residential building collapse are under investigation and a legal battle for damages has already started from some residents of Champlain Towers South.

As documents in the files of the Mayor of Surfside have learned, the missing building had structural problems that were spotted in 2018 by an engineering company and the community had fallen behind in expensive recommended repairs.

(With information from EFE)

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