they identified the body of a 21 year old Argentinian

Miami-Dade police confirmed the discovery of 12 bodies in the rubble of the Champlain Towers building on Friday. One of the identified victims is the young Argentinian Ilan Naibryf.

Naibryf was 21 and studied physics at the University of Chicago. He was on the 8th floor of the building with his girlfriend Deborah Berezdivin, a Puerto Rican national, whose body had been identified hours earlier.

The young Argentinian went to high school at the Hawaii Preparatory Academy, where he learned to surf, play football, cross country and enjoy nature with his friends. He specialized in the creation of prostheses at the robotics center.

In a first report, the police specified having succeeded in identifying 8 bodies, among which that of Sophia López-Moreira, the sister of the first lady of Paraguay, Silvana Abdo; her husband Luis Pettengill and the youngest of their three children. Later, four other victims were confirmed, including Naibryf.

Paraguayan Foreign Minister Euclides Acevedo told media that the first lady’s other two nephews and the family’s nanny, Lady Luna, are still missing.

The first lady is in Miami with other relatives to follow from the scene the tasks of recovering the bodies of their loved ones.

With new data provided by the Police, the number of deaths confirmed by the collapse rose to 79, a figure that the mayor described as “heartbreaking”.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said victim recovery efforts “are moving with great urgency” to end the families of the victims, who have spent two agonizing weeks awaiting news. .

“It is a bewildering and heartbreaking figure It affects us all very deeply, ” Levine Cava said of the latest death toll.

Rescue workers and emergency support teams from Florida and other states worked around the clock at the Surfside condo site, physically and emotionally draining amid the sweltering heat and dangerous conditions.

The Champlain Towers South, a 12-story oceanfront building north of Miami Beach, partially collapsed in the wee hours of June 24, as dozens of residents slept in their apartments.